This newly revised fourth edition of Postharvest Handling brings new and updated chapters with new knowledge and applications from postharvest research. The revised edition brings back the aspects of preharvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality and features new chapters on the increasingly important role of transportation and logistics. It emphasizes consumers and systems thinking for postharvest chains for fresh produce.
This book also explores current challenges—including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, sustainability — and best practices for systems to thrive in spite of these challenges. This unique resource provides an overview of postharvest systems and their role in food value chains and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process.
Written by a team of experts in Postharvest Systems and Handling, this book continues to be the most practical and up-to-date resource for postharvest physiologists and technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, and horticulture along with businesses handling fresh or minimally processed products.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Prologue - p. xvii 9. Part 1: Whole system - p. xviii 10. Chapter 1. Postharvest systems—some introductory thoughts - p. 3 11. Chapter 2. Systems approaches for postharvest handling of fresh produce - p. 17 12. Chapter 3. Postharvest regulation and quality standards on fresh produce - p. 51 13. Chapter 4. Modeling quality attributes and quality-related product properties - p. 99 14. Chapter 5. Models for improving fresh produce chains - p. 135 15. Part 2: Product - p. 162 16. Chapter 6. Challenges in handling fresh fruits and vegetables - p. 167 17. Chapter 7. Fresh-cut produce quality: implications for postharvest - p. 187 18. Chapter 8. Multiomics approaches for the improvements of postharvest systems - p. 251 19. Chapter 9. Postharvest quality properties of potential tropical fruits related to their unique structural characters - p. 277 20. Part 3: Process - p. 311 21. Chapter 10. Value chain management and postharvest handling - p. 319 22. Chapter 11. Plant to plate—achieving effective traceability in the digital age - p. 343 23. Chapter 12. Managing product flow through postharvest systems - p. 363 24. Chapter 13. Sorting for defects - p. 377 25. Chapter 14. Nondestructive evaluation: detection of external and internal attributes frequently associated with quality and damage - p. 399 26. Chapter 15. Cooling fresh produce - p. 435 27. Chapter 16. Investigating losses occurring during shipment: forensic aspects of cargo claims - p. 469 28. Part 4: Perceptions - p. 479 29. Chapter 17. Consumer eating habits and perceptions of fresh produce quality - p. 487 30. Chapter 18. What mining the text tells about minding the consumer: the changing fruit and vegetable consumption patterns and shifting research focus - p. 517 31. Chapter 19. Compositional determinants of fruit and vegetable quality and nutritional value - p. 565 32. Chapter 20. Mitigating contamination of fresh and fresh-cut produce - p. 621 33. Chapter 21. Measuring consumer acceptability of fruits and vegetables - p. 651 34. Epilogue - p. 667 35. Index - p. 669
This newly revised fourth edition of Postharvest Handling brings new and updated chapters with new knowledge and applications from postharvest research. The revised edition brings back the aspects of preharvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality and features new chapters on the increasingly important role of transportation and logistics. It emphasizes consumers and systems thinking for postharvest chains for fresh produce.
This book also explores current challenges—including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, sustainability — and best practices for systems to thrive in spite of these challenges. This unique resource provides an overview of postharvest systems and their role in food value chains and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process.
Written by a team of experts in Postharvest Systems and Handling, this book continues to be the most practical and up-to-date resource for postharvest physiologists and technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, and horticulture along with businesses handling fresh or minimally processed products.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Prologue - p. xvii 9. Part 1: Whole system - p. xviii 10. Chapter 1. Postharvest systems—some introductory thoughts - p. 3 11. Chapter 2. Systems approaches for postharvest handling of fresh produce - p. 17 12. Chapter 3. Postharvest regulation and quality standards on fresh produce - p. 51 13. Chapter 4. Modeling quality attributes and quality-related product properties - p. 99 14. Chapter 5. Models for improving fresh produce chains - p. 135 15. Part 2: Product - p. 162 16. Chapter 6. Challenges in handling fresh fruits and vegetables - p. 167 17. Chapter 7. Fresh-cut produce quality: implications for postharvest - p. 187 18. Chapter 8. Multiomics approaches for the improvements of postharvest systems - p. 251 19. Chapter 9. Postharvest quality properties of potential tropical fruits related to their unique structural characters - p. 277 20. Part 3: Process - p. 311 21. Chapter 10. Value chain management and postharvest handling - p. 319 22. Chapter 11. Plant to plate—achieving effective traceability in the digital age - p. 343 23. Chapter 12. Managing product flow through postharvest systems - p. 363 24. Chapter 13. Sorting for defects - p. 377 25. Chapter 14. Nondestructive evaluation: detection of external and internal attributes frequently associated with quality and damage - p. 399 26. Chapter 15. Cooling fresh produce - p. 435 27. Chapter 16. Investigating losses occurring during shipment: forensic aspects of cargo claims - p. 469 28. Part 4: Perceptions - p. 479 29. Chapter 17. Consumer eating habits and perceptions of fresh produce quality - p. 487 30. Chapter 18. What mining the text tells about minding the consumer: the changing fruit and vegetable consumption patterns and shifting research focus - p. 517 31. Chapter 19. Compositional determinants of fruit and vegetable quality and nutritional value - p. 565 32. Chapter 20. Mitigating contamination of fresh and fresh-cut produce - p. 621 33. Chapter 21. Measuring consumer acceptability of fruits and vegetables - p. 651 34. Epilogue - p. 667 35. Index - p. 669
