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Managing Quality of Fruit and Vegetables

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Umezuruike Linus Opara
  • Language: English

Managing Quality of Fruit and Vegetables covers the application of proven and novel industrial approaches to quality management of fresh produce that have become common practice… Read more

Description

Managing Quality of Fruit and Vegetables covers the application of proven and novel industrial approaches to quality management of fresh produce that have become common practice among local and global fresh produce chains while also covering the latest postharvest technologies for maintaining quality and safety. In addition, it addresses the impacts of emerging global challenges, such as climate change, the role of fruit and vegetables on nutrition security, and the development of future postharvest technologies to maintain quality and safety. Both academics and post-graduate students studying fresh produce supply chains and industry professionals will find this book extremely useful.

Split into three broad themes, the book brings to light the latest developments on the biochemical and physiological basis for the quality of fruit and vegetables, the industrial approaches to quality management of fruit and vegetables, and the latest advances in postharvest technologies for controlling and maintaining quality.

Key features

  • Covers the biochemical and physiological basis for quality of fruit and vegetables
  • Highlights industrial approaches to quality management of fruit and vegetables
  • Provides information on advances in postharvest technologies for controlling and maintaining quality

Readership

Professionals working in food production (postharvest physiologists, packinghouse operators, co-operative auctions, refrigeration technologists); academics/post-doctoral researchers and postgraduate students studying fresh produce supply chains and technology

Table of contents

Part 1 Importance of fruit and vegetables in food systems

1. General introduction (FAV in food and nutrition security)

2. Global trade in fruit and vegetables

3. Global trends affecting quality management of fruit and vegetables

4. Postharvest losses and waste of fruit and vegetable

Part 2 Biochemical and physiological basis of fruit and vegetable quality

5. Growth and development6. Maturity, ripening and senescence

7. Respiration, transpiration and weight loss

8. Pre-harvest factors affecting postharvest quality

Part 3 Industrial approaches to quality management

9. Approaches to quality management

10. Quality management systems

Part 4 Maturity and Quality Indicators

11. Maturity – Assessing readiness for harvest

12. Definition, perspectives and orientations of quality

13. Techniques and procedures for measuring quality

Part 5 Harvesting and Postharvest Handling

14. Harvesting and field preparation

15. Precooling techniques

16. Packhouse operations – sorting, grading and packing

17. Treatment of fruit and vegetables (ripening, pests, diseases and disorders)

18. Mechanical damage of fruit and vegetables

Part 6 Storage and Packaging Technologies

19. Refrigerated storage

20. Hyperbaric/Hypobaric storage

21. Controlled atmosphere storage

22. Logistics packaging (for bulk storage and transport)

23. Modified atmosphere packaging (for retail and consumer handling)

Part 7 Emerging Issues in Quality Management of Fruit and Vegetables

24. Climate change and postharvest quality

25. Nutrition-sensitive postharvest management

26. Branding and marketing of fruit and vegetables

27. Quality standards and food waste

28. Next generation postharvest technologies for quality management (the role of emerging postharvest innovation triad – biotechnology, nanotechnology and ICT)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 1, 2029
  • Language: English

About the author

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Umezuruike Linus Opara

Professor Opara serves on the advisory board of international organisations such as the Horticulture Innovation Lab of the Feed the Future Programme in the USA. He is the honorary vice president of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and honorary chair of the CIGR Section VI: Postharvest Technology and Agro-Processing. He also chairs the International Society for Horticultural Science's Vegetables Section (Roots, Tuber, Edible Bulbs, Brassica & Asparagus). He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Postharvest Technology, and has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and industry journals. He has given over 150 oral presentations at international conferences, including several invited keynotes addresses and served in expert panels related to food security, value addition and agricultural transformation. This member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) graduated in agricultural engineering from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, and holds a PhD from Massey University in New Zealand.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, South African Research Chair in Postharvest Technology, Postharvest Technology Research Laboratory, Faculty of AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa