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Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops: Volume 3: Quality Handling and Evaluation (Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops) by Ramdane Dris, Shri Mohan S.M. Jain is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Food quality is becoming an ever-increasing important feature for consumers and it is well known that some food crops are perishable and have a very short shelf and storage life. An effective quality assurance system throughout the handling steps between harvest and retail display is essential to provide a consistently good quality supply of fresh food crops to the consumers and to protect the reputation of a given marketing label. Food manufacturing companies all over the world are incre- ingly focussing on quality aspect of food including minimally processed food to meet consumer demands for fresh-like and healthy food products. To investigate and control quality, one must be able to measure quality-related attributes. Quality of produce encompasses sensory attributes, nutritive values, chemical constituents, mechanical properties, functional properties and defects. Successful postharvest handling of crops requires careful coordination and integration of the various steps from harvest operations to consumer level in order to maintain the initial product quality. Maturity at harvest is one feature of quality of perishable products, it has great influence on their postharvest behav

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Author
Ramdane Dris, Shri Mohan S.M. Jain
Publisher
Kluwer Academic; Springer
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9781402016981
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Agriculture, Medical, Science

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