Modeling Blueberry Firmness and Mass Loss During Cooling Delays and Storage

Tetteh, M. K.; Prussia, Stanley E.; NeSmith, D. Scott; Verma, B. P.; Aggarwal, Deepak

doi:10.13031/2013.16543

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“…Several studies have shown that promptly pre-cooling berry fruits and subsequently maintaining optimum temperature significantly reduces loss of quality during storage and extends shelf life. For example, decreasing the cooling delays from 16 to 2 h significantly reduced weight loss and softening of blueberries during subsequent storage [1]. In order to reduce decay and loss of quality during storage, strawberries should also be pre-cooled immediately or not more than 2 or 3 h after harvest [2].…”

Section: (B) Temperaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement in fresh fruit and vegetable logistics quality: berry logistics field studies

Nunes

Nicometo

Émond

et al. 2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables is greatly influenced by environmental conditions. Increasing temperature usually results in accelerated loss of quality and shelf-life reduction, which is not physically visible until too late in the supply chain to adjust logistics to match shelf life. A blackberry study showed that temperatures inside pallets varied significantly and 57% of the berries arriving at the packinghouse did not have enough remaining shelf life for the longest supply routes. Yet, the advanced shelf-life loss was not physically visible. Some of those pallets would be sent on longer supply routes than necessary, creating avoidable waste. Other studies showed that variable pre-cooling at the centre of pallets resulted in physically invisible uneven shelf life. We have shown that using simple temperature measurements much waste can be avoided using ‘first expiring first out’. Results from our studies showed that shelf-life prediction should not be based on a single quality factor as, depending on the temperature history, the quality attribute that limits shelf life may vary. Finally, methods to use air temperature to predict product temperature for highest shelf-life prediction accuracy in the absence of individual sensors for each monitored product have been developed. Our results show a significant reduction of up to 98% in the root-mean-square-error difference between the product temperature and air temperature when advanced estimation methods are used.

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Section: (B) Temperaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement in fresh fruit and vegetable logistics quality: berry logistics field studies

Nunes

Nicometo

Émond

et al. 2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…The firmness was measured using a Texture analyzer (TA-TX) Plus (Texture Technologies Corp, USA). The firmness of the tomatoes was accessed via nondestructive compression and the force per unit deformation was taken as a measure of hardness [15].…”

Section: Postharvest Quality Evaluationmentioning

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Effect of edible beeswax coating on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) postharvest quality

Wan Ibrahim,

Rudiyanto,

Mohd Shah

2023

E3S Web of Conf.

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Beeswax, known for its beneficial composition, has found wide application in various industries, including pharmacy, and medicine. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of beeswax as a covering for preserving tomato postharvest quality. Beeswax was applied to tomato fruits in three different dosages (5, 15, and 25 g) and stored for 30 days at 10 °C. The results revealed that uncoated fruits exhibited a higher percentage of weight loss and firmness compared to coated fruits during storage. Coating treatments demonstrated the ability to delay the decline in weight loss, firmness, TSS and the preservation of bioactive compounds such as lycopene. Notably, the fruits coated with 25 g beeswax displayed significantly lower weight loss percentages than the other treatments. These findings suggest that the postharvest application of beeswax has the potential to extend the storage life of tomato fruits by maintaining fruit quality.

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“…The influence of temperature management after harvest on mechanical parameters has mainly been studied using compression tests with variable equipment choices, including Ametek gauge (Sanford et al, 1991), FirmTech (Tetteh et al, 2004(Tetteh et al, , 2020, and Stable texture analyser (Paniagua et al, 2014). The penetration test has also been considered (Concha-Meyer et al, 2015).…”

Section: Temperaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In general terms, better mechanical parameters are obtained when postharvest fruit temperature is managed below 10 • C (Sanford et al, 1991;Tetteh et al, 2004;NeSmith et al, 2005). However, Forney (2009) reported a higher chord stiffness on blueberries stored at 10 • C than 0 • C when the water vapour pressure deficit was the same at both temperatures (i.e., 0.212 kPa).…”

Section: Temperaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Blueberry firmness - A review of the textural and mechanical properties used in quality evaluations

Rivera

Giongo²,

Cappai³

et al. 2022

Postharvest Biology and Technology

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Modeling Blueberry Firmness and Mass Loss During Cooling Delays and Storage

Cited by 16 publications

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Improvement in fresh fruit and vegetable logistics quality: berry logistics field studies

Improvement in fresh fruit and vegetable logistics quality: berry logistics field studies

Effect of edible beeswax coating on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) postharvest quality

Blueberry firmness - A review of the textural and mechanical properties used in quality evaluations

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