Critical assessment of the delivery methods of chemical and natural postharvest preservatives for fruits and vegetables: a review

Zhang, Yiqin; Zhang, Wanli; Wu, Weijie; Farag, Mohamed A.; Wang, Lishu; Xiao, Shangyue; Gao, Haiyan; Jiang, Weibo

doi:10.1080/10408398.2023.2289071

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“…It is projected that by 2030, two-thirds of the world's population (about 5 billion people) will be living in urban areas, and this proportion is expected to increase to approximately 68% (about 6.7 billion people) by 2050 (Lal, 2020;Richardson and Arlotta, 2022). Fresh products, which refer to unprocessed or minimally processed fruits and vegetables, play a crucial role in human diets as they are rich in dietary fibers, essential minerals, and vitamins (Romero et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2023). With the ongoing urbanization and unprecedented demographic pressure in cities, the availability of fresh products in urban areas heavily relies on peri-urban and adjacent rural areas, as well as external supply chains.…”

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Home food gardening in modern cities: advances, issues, and future perspectives

Xu,

Lin,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Against the backdrop of the unexpected COVID-19 epidemic, governments are facing significant challenges in mobilizing food resources, particularly fresh products. It is inevitable that there will be intermittent shortages of food during the pandemic. As a result, home food gardening has gained considerable attention from city residents and policymakers in modern cities. This is due to its potential to provide food during humanitarian emergencies and lockdown. Moreover, home food gardening is increasingly becoming a popular recreational activity in many countries, offering therapeutic benefits such as fostering social bonds through knowledge-sharing and fruit-sharing, improving mental and psychological well-being, promoting outdoor physical exercise, and strengthening the connection between humans and nature. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the latest advancements in home food gardening, including cultivated species, devices, technologies, and current issues. It also proposes perspectives based on current researches to serve as a reference for future research and development.

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Home food gardening in modern cities: advances, issues, and future perspectives

Xu,

Lin,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The crucial evaluation indexes and relative measurement methods of edible value for fresh fruits and vegetables: A review

Zhang,

Wang,

Chen

et al. 2024

Future Postharvest and Food

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Fresh fruits and vegetables (F&V), with their attractive sensory, flavors, and nutrients, occupy a highly valuable part of people's daily diet. Plenty of postharvest studies have focused on the effects of preservation techniques on the edible quality and nutrients of F&V. Therefore, it is crucial to summarize the research methods of those quality and nutritional indicators for F&V. This work reviews the measurement and analysis methods on these parameters of postharvest F&V which have been validated by numerous publications, including firmness, sugars/acids, pigments, phenols, etc. Importantly, some instruments are involved in these experimental methods, such as firmness tester, spectrophotometer, gas chromatograph, and so on. Furthermore, some promising analysis methods in the past decades combined with advanced technologies are also raised in our discussion. This work is expected to provide guidance and normative significance for future research on quality assessment, preservation, and processing characteristics of F&V.

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