Postharvest Handling

A Systems Approach
4. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-12-822845-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 702 Seiten, Format (B × H): 204 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1482 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postharvest physiologists or technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food sciences, and horticulture along with handlers of fresh or minimally processed products within the fresh produce processing industries will find this to be an invaluable resource
Students majoring in horticulture, food science, business and marketing, consumer economics and nutrition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, Nigel H.

Shewfelt, Robert L.

Prussia, Stanley E.

Florkowski, Wojciech J.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Gartenbau
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Banks, Nigel H.
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.