Safety and quality aspects of food products have always been critical issues for the food
production and processing industries. Since conventional quality measurements are …

Food adulteration is the deceitful practice of misleading consumers about food to profit from
it. The threat to public health and food quality or nutritional valuable make it a major issue …

Apples are highly susceptible to bruising during picking, packing, and transportation, and
early detection of apple bruises allows timely screening and treatment to reduce food safety …

To achieve accurate, rapid, and non-destructive oil content determination in maize, a neural
fitting model that combines feature selection and feature extraction is proposed. Competitive …

Huanglongbing (HLB; citrus greening) and citrus canker are invasive diseases afflicting
Florida citrus groves, causing financial losses through yield loss, smaller fruit, blemishes …

Citrus greening disease (HLB) and citrus canker cause financial losses in Florida citrus
groves via smaller fruits, blemishes, premature fruit drop, and/or eventual tree death …

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is categorized as a tropical fruit, and it is popularly
believed by many botanists to have originated from the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and the …

During the past couple of decades, the technique of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has
developed rapidly and successfully applied as a novel non-destructive tool for fresh produce …

Banana is the most widely consumed and traded fruit globally. The presence of mechanical
damage, especially bruise damage, is a major quality defect affecting the handling and …