Bruising is the most common type of mechanical damage affecting fresh horticultural
produce, and reduces quality to the consumer and income to fruit and vegetable industries …

Background Bruising is a kind of subcutaneous tissue injury that does not involve the rupture
of fresh fruit epidermis. This damage can occur at any stage from picking, storage and …

Highlights•Non-destructive system to automate the detection of early mechanical damage in
mangos.•Eleven feature selection methods were compared to determine important …

In the process of growing, harvesting, and storage, fruits are vulnerable to mechanical
damage, microbial infections, and other types of damage, which not only reduce the quality …

Visible–near‐infrared spectroscopy is known for its rapid and nondestructive characteristics
designed to predict leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) of winter wheat. It is believed that the …

Infrared thermal imaging is a powerful tool used to monitor the quality and safety of various
agricultural products. In this study, infrared thermal imaging was used to evaluate the quality …

Highlights•Bruised area of pear fruit was measured and modelled by finite element
method.•Bruised area increased with increasing of dropping height and ripening …

White button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) are soft-cellular and susceptible to color
changes accounting significant postharvest losses due to brown spots on their cap surface …

The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of hyperspectral data coupled with
chemometrics methods in characterizing and detecting the non-visible mechanical damage …

The feasibility of brown core and soluble solids content (SSC) simultaneously online by
visible and near infrared (visible–NIR) transmittance spectroscopy. Visible–NIR spectra of …