Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View / Edition 1

by Robert L. Shewfelt, Bernhard Bruckner

Overview

Improved quality requires integration across business functions and scientific disciplines. Based on this premise, Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View presents 15 unique perspectives on achieving greater quality and guidance for a more integrated approach to postharvest handling and fruit and vegetable research.

Designed for anyone involved in the management, production, handling, distribution, or processing of fruits and vegetables, it provides concise descriptions of important issues, roadmaps to the literature in specific fields, assessments of current knowledge and research needs, and specific examples of product-based research. Your guide to the dynamic developments in integrating fruit and vegetable quality projects, Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View also presents a range of options for achieving better coordination of research across scientific disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367398743
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert L. Shewfelt, Bernhard Brückner

Table of Contents

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. Food Supply Chains: From Productivity toward Quality. Quality and Breeding - Cultivars, Genetic Engineering. Consumer Preferences and Breeding Goals. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Effects on the Quality of Stored Apple Fruit. Environmental Effects on Product Quality. Postharvest Handling and Storage of Vegetables. QUALITY. Acceptability. Fruit and Vegetable Quality. Consumer Preference. Instrumental Data - Consumer Acceptance. House of Quality - An Integrated View of Fruit and Vegetable Quality. AN INTEGRATED VIEW. Economics of Quality. Integrated Quality Management Applied to the Processed Vegetables Industry. Methods and Examples of Integration. Integrating Problem-Oriented Research. A More Integrated View. Index

Editorial Reviews

Twenty-seven (mostly) European scholars from sciences related to plant foods provide descriptions of issues facing postharvest handlers, roadmaps to the literature in specific fields, assessments of current knowledge and research needs, and specific examples of product-based research. Contributions provide a guide to developments in integrating projects on fruit and vegetable quality, a range of options to achieve better coordination of research across related disciplines, and methods to improve postharvest handling. The book's underlying premise is that an interdisciplinary approach is more likely to lead to improved food quality than continued emphasis on single-discipline studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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