Background Fruits are vulnerable to mechanical damages and physiological disorders
caused by the static and dynamic forces acting on them during transportation and abiotic …

Drying is one of the most complex and energy-consuming chemical unit operations. R&D
efforts in drying technology have skyrocketed in the past decades, as new drivers emerged …

Background Food microstructure can be visualised by a wide range of microscopic
techniques, however these methods are usually destructive and require sample preparation …

Highlights•Defects affecting horticultural products and detection challenges are
summarised.•Machine learning's role in addressing issues of fruit defect detection is …

We review nondestructive techniques for measuring internal and external quality attributes
of fruit and vegetables, such as color, size and shape, flavor, texture, and absence of …

This paper reports on nondestructive detection of internal defect in apples by using a new
noncontact multichannel spectroscopic system in semi-transmittance mode for the visible …

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 …

Today in the agricultural industry, many defects affect production efficiency; this paper aims
to show how the combination of machine vision (MV) and image processing (IP) helps to …

In this study, short-term high oxygen pre-stimulation (SHOP) was used to prevent the
browning of fresh-cut watercored Fuji apples. Browning index (BI), relative electrical …

Long term storage is required to deliver high quality pear fruit year-round. Under suboptimal
storage conditions, internal disorders, such as internal browning and cavity formation, can …