Postharvest quality, technologies, and strategies to reduce losses along the supply chain of banana: A review

M Al-Dairi, PB Pathare, R Al-Yahyai… - Trends in Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Banana fruit is a popular crop in global agriculture production and trade.
Bananas are delicate fresh produce where external factors can highly affect their quality …

Emerging non-destructive imaging techniques for fruit damage detection: Image processing and analysis

NK Mahanti, R Pandiselvam, A Kothakota… - Trends in Food Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Fruits are vulnerable to mechanical damages and physiological disorders
caused by the static and dynamic forces acting on them during transportation and abiotic …

Mechanical damage of fresh produce in postharvest transportation: Current status and future prospects

M Al-Dairi, PB Pathare, R Al-Yahyai… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Incidence of postharvest losses in the fresh produce value chain is a worldwide
concern facing food security and sustainability. Postharvest losses can occur along the …

Monitoring strategies for quality control of agricultural products using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy: A review

V Cortés, J Blasco, N Aleixos, S Cubero… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The increasing demand for quality assurance in agro-food production requires
sophisticated analytical methods for in-line quality control. One of these techniques is visible …

Analytical methods for determination of sugars and sweetness of horticultural products—A review

LS Magwaza, UL Opara - Scientia Horticulturae, 2015 - Elsevier
The determination and quantification of sugars is important for quality control and assurance
of horticultural produce. This review discusses analytical methods for determination of …

Non-destructive prediction of internal and external quality attributes of fruit with thick rind: A review

E Arendse, OA Fawole, LS Magwaza… - Journal of Food …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fruits with thick rind have been reported to interfere with the measurement of internal quality
of non-destructive near infrared spectroscopy. This review provides an overview of issues …

[HTML][HTML] Harvest and postharvest factors affecting bruise damage of fresh fruits

Z Hussein, OA Fawole, UL Opara - Horticultural Plant Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Fresh fruits are susceptible to bruising, a common type of mechanical damage during
harvest and at all stages of postharvest handling. In quest of develo** and adoption of …

Machine learning applications to non-destructive defect detection in horticultural products

JFI Nturambirwe, UL Opara - Biosystems engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Defects affecting horticultural products and detection challenges are
summarised.•Machine learning's role in addressing issues of fruit defect detection is …

Application of deep learning architectures for accurate and rapid detection of internal mechanical damage of blueberry using hyperspectral transmittance data

Z Wang, M Hu, G Zhai - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Deep learning has become a widely used powerful tool in many research fields, although
not much so yet in agriculture technologies. In this work, two deep convolutional neural …

An overview on optical non-destructive detection of bruises in fruit: Technology, method, application, challenge and trend

M Mei, J Li - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Bruising is a kind of subcutaneous tissue injury that does not involve the rupture
of fresh fruit epidermis. This damage can occur at any stage from picking, storage and …