“…Many physical characteristics of fruits and vegetables have been determined nondestructively (Kato, 1997;Lammertyn, Nicolai, Ooms, Smedt, & Baerdemaeker, 1998;Lesage & Destain, 1996;Nussinovitch, Ward, & Mey-tal, 1996). For mango some such efforts using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy (Guthrie & Walsh, 1997;Saranwong, Sornsrivichai, & Kawano, 2001, 2003a, 2003bWalsh, Golic, & Greensill, 2004), visual spectral analysis (Jha, Chopra, & Kingsly, 2005;Schmilovitch, Mizarach, Hoffman, Egozi, & Fuchs, 2003), acoustic and ultrasound techniques (Mizrach, Flitsanov, Schmilovitch, & Fuchs, 1999;Mizrach, 2000;Polderdijk, Kho, Kruif, & Carmi, 2000;Shmulevich, Galili, & Howarth, 2003;Valente & Ferrandis, 2003) are also reported, but these instruments are costly and difficult to carry to the mango orchards. A hand held colorimeter is cheaper and easier to carry to the orchards.…”