edited by Robert L. Shewfelt and Bernhard Brückner
- A tightly-organized, fully integrated reference on fruit and vegetable quality
- Presents options for improving postharvest handling to enhance quality
- Provides a model for integrating research efforts to improve quality
- A unique interdisciplinary approach
Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View is designed for anyone involved
in management, production, handling, distribution or processing of fruits and
vegetables. It provides concise descriptions
of important issues facing postharvest handlers, roadmaps to the literature in
specific fields, assessments of current knowledge and research needs, and specific
examples of product-based research. It provides a guide to the dynamic developments
in integrating fruit and vegetable quality projects.
Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View
presents 14 unique perspectives in the topic, culminating in two chapters
that seek a common ground for bringing together these perspectives into a
unified language that permits a more integrated approach to fruit and vegetable
research and postharvest handling.
The book is organized into four sections. Section I presents contemporary
issues in fruit and vegetable quality. Section II focuses on properties of
fruits and vegetables. Section III addresses the definition and principles
of quality and its measurement. Section IV provides a basis for integrating
quality across the scientific disciplines.
Contents
I: Contemporary Issues
- Food Supply Chains: From Productivity towards Quality
- Quality and Breeding - Cultivars, Genetic Engineering
- Consumer Preferences and Breeding Goals
II: Fruits and Vegetables
- Effects on the Quality of Stored Apple Fruit
- Environmental Effects on Product Quality
- Postharvest Handling and Storage of Vegetables
III: Quality
- Acceptability
- Fruit and Vegetable Quality
- Consumer Preference
- Instrumental Data - Consumer Acceptance
- House of Quality- An Integrated View of Fruit and Vegetable Quality
IV: An Integrated View
- Economics of Quality
- Integrated Quality Management Applied to the Processing Vegetables Industry
- Methods and Examples of Integration
- Problem-Oriented Research
- A More Integrated View
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