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 …

Artificial vision systems are powerful tools for the automatic inspection of fruits and
vegetables. Typical target applications of such systems include grading, quality estimation …

Many quality attributes of food products are influenced by the water status and the
microstructure. Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance …

Highlights•Fresh fruits are very susceptible to mechanical damage during handling.•This
review concerns the quantitative evaluation of mechanical damage to fruits.•The sources …

Agriculture sector plays a key role in the economic development of India. The task of fruit
grading is vital in the agricultural industry because there is a great demand for high quality …

Low-field bench top 1 H nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) relaxometry instruments
have been increasingly popular as analytical tools for engineering research. Magnetic …

This review covers developments in non-invasive techniques for quality analysis and
inspection of specialty crops, mainly fresh fruits and vegetables, over the past decade up to …

Bruise is the most common type of damage to peaches in a major cause of quality loss.
However, fast and nondestructive detection of early bruises on peaches is a challenging …

Fruit usually suffers from water loss after transportation and storage, which largely blemishes
the quality characteristics including appearance, saleable weight and texture. This study …

Bruising is the most common type of damage occurring during all stages of postharvest
handling, and it is difficult to detect by human inspection because of minor changes in …