Simulated In-Transit Vibration Damage to Packaged Fresh Market Grapes and Strawberries

Fischer, Dieter F.; Craig, W. Laurence; Watada, Alley E.; Wilder, Douglas; Ashby, B. H.

doi:10.13031/2013.26078

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“…Since the paperboards used between the layers of the boxes save them against compression, the compression damage of the product due to higher box weight could be negligible during transportation. Fischer et al (1992) simulated the strawberry transportation process by the electro-hydraulic vibration system and obtained the same results.…”

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“…The factors and their levels are presented in Table 1. The extent of damage was evaluated based on the strawberry grading system presented by Fischer et al (1992) having assigned some numerical values to every grade, as seen in Table 2. For each treatment, the number of fruits within each grade was multiplied by related grade value and then averaged to obtain an index for the extent of damage.…”

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Mechanical Damage Of Strawberry During Harvest And Postharvest Operations

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Ghassemzadeh

Moghaddam

et al. 2015

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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Strawberry is a non-climacteric fruit with a limited harvesting period. Because of high susceptibility to mechanical damage, strawberry has a small postharvest life. In this research, an experiment was designed to study the mechanical damage phenomena in strawberry during the harvest and postharvest operations together with some physical properties of strawberry. Influences of some other factors such as variety, fruit position in the box as well as box position on the truck were also investigated. Results indicated that the variety, operation stage, fruit position in the box, and box position on the truck, had significant effects on the extent of the fruits' mechanical damage. Maximum damage index was related to picking stage. The variety Gaviota showed more susceptibility to mechanical damage than Selva. The maximum damage occurred at the bottom rows in the boxes. Furthermore, it was observed that the higher the position of a box on the truck, the more the susceptibility of fruits would be to mechanical damage.

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Mechanical Damage Of Strawberry During Harvest And Postharvest Operations

Aliasgarian

Ghassemzadeh

Moghaddam

et al. 2015

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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“…), tomatoes (Singh and Singh ) and grapes (Fischer et al . ). From the end of the 1960s to recent years, several methodologies were set up to evaluate the damage on fruits due to transport, and different systems to simulate transport were used: mechanical (O'Brien and Guillou ; Chesson and O'Brien ), electrohydraulic (Peleg and Hinga ; Turczyn et al .…”

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“…Several studies revealed that the physical damage, changes of chemical components and physiological reactions of strawberries after harvest are due to the vibration during transportation (Fischer et al . ; Larsen et al . ; Nunes et al .…”

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Effect of Vibration on the Quality of Strawberry Fruits Caused by Simulated Transport

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Aiello

Miceli

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J Food Process Engineering

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Mechanical damage of agricultural products is one of the main problems in the harvest and postharvest chain due to the large economic loss that the shelf life reduction could generate. Measurements of change in the chemical components of highly perishable products and microbial growth under different static and dynamic loads is the first step in the development of intelligent logistic units that could help in predicting the residual shelf life in order to minimize losses along the supply chain. In our research, the effects of vibration along the supply chain of a case study were analyzed on strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) and woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) in terms of microbiological and quality assessment. Fruits were subjected to vibration in a temperature-controlled environment, simulating the transport conditions. Microbiological and quality analyses were conducted in three different positions along the column of the crates. The results were compared with the nonvibrated strawberries stored in the same environmental conditions along the whole cold chain, showing that vibrations cause a significant decrease in the qualitative characteristics of both fruits. Practical Applications: The practical application obtainable from our research is the development of ad hoc economically affordable sensors based on the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by the microorganisms showing the most rapid increase. The measurement of the VOCs of the dominant microorganisms could be implemented in a smart logistic unit as it provides information on the microbial evolution in real time. The research proposed configures as a first step to achieve such objective, and toward the development of a supply chain monitoring and control infrastructure relaying on the correlation of vibration phenomena with the VOCs originated by the microbiological activity. The methodology consists of measuring the effects of vibration along a reference supply chain in terms of microbiological and quality assessment, with the aim of extrapolating a mathematical correlation that can further be generalized into a replicable model

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“…Damage caused by transport vibration was assessed on different species of fruits and vegetables, such as cling peaches (O'Brien, Gentry, & Gibson, 1965;Vergano, Testin, & Newall, 1991), apricots (O'Brien & Guillou, 1969), potatoes , tomatoes , grapes and strawberries (Fischer, Craig, Watada, Douglas, & Ashby, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%