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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.
List of contents
Part 1 - Whole System 1. Postharvest systems - some introductory thoughts
2. Systems Approach In Postharvest Handling Of Fresh Produce
3. Consumer Eating Habits and Perception of Fresh Produce Quality
4. Modeling Quality Attributes and Quality Related Product Properties
5. Models for Improving Fresh Produce Chains
Part 2 - Product 6. Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
7. Fresh-Cut Products - Implications For Postharvest
8. Multi-omics approaches for the improvements of postharvest systems
9. Postharvest Quality Properties of Potential Tropical Fruits Related to their Unique Structural Characters
Part 3 - Process 10. Managing Value Chains - Partners in Competitiveness
11. Tracking Products From Field To Consumer
12. Managing Product Flow Through Postharvest Systems
13. Sorting For Quality
14. Non-destructive evaluation: detection of external and internal attributes frequently associated with quality and damage
15. Cooling Fresh Produce
16. Investigating Losses Occurring During Shipment: Forensic Aspects of Cargo Claims
Part 4 - Perceptions 17. Consumer Eating Habits and Perceptions of Fresh Produce Quality
18. What mining the text tells about minding the consumer: The changing fruit and vegetable consumption patterns and shifting research focus
19. Nutritional quality of fruits and vegetables
20. Microbial Quality and Safety of Fresh and Fresh-cut Product
21. Measuring Consumer Acceptance of Vegetables
About the author
Wojciech J. Florkowski has over 18 years of experience in research, project management, and training. His areas of specialization and expertise include agricultural economics and international business with emphasis on marketing and consumer studies, technology transfer and assessment, environmental policy analysis, and research policy. He is the author of over 200 publications on a variety of economic, marketing, consumer and policy issues, including the problems of agricultural productivity, policy, consumer willingness-to-pay and price behavior. He?co-edited?“Postharvest?Handling: A Systems Approach” (3rd edition)Nigel Banks worked as a Professor of Postharvest Technology at Massey University and at ZESPRI as General Manager for Innovation, where he learned branding, growers, consumers, ways to connect them and the added value of an outstanding team. Through Postharvest.Co, Nigel is exploring new ways to connect postharvesters, art, online tools and learning with an eye to the increasingly pressing needs of our future world.Robert L Shewfelt is Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia. He advises more than 50 students and has taught 11 different courses in the past two years ranging from Freshman Seminars in Chocolate Science and Coffee Technology to graduate-level courses in Food Research & the Scientific Method. Dr. Shewfelt was also the 2006 recipient of the Cruess Award for Excellence in Teaching of IFT. He?co-edited?“Postharvest?Handling: A Systems Approach” (3rd edition)
