Harvesting, Transportation, Processing and Storage of Vegetables and Fruits
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Product Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2023) | Viewed by 1874
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food texture; engineering; chemical analyses; mechanical property; cereals, fruits
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: vegetables and fruits; harvest technology; transport technology; post-harvest technology; processing technologies; biotic and abiotic factors; storage and mechanical properties
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In today's world, increasing attention is paid to food production and food security, bearing in mind the quality of the harvested material. Important links in the production and management of raw materials (fruit and vegetables) include their transport, processing, storage, preservation and use for the production of high-quality products. Therefore, it is necessary to promote and disseminate the latest research results in the field of the quality of selected plant raw materials and the method of their preservation in order to improve their quality.
This Special Issue specifically focuses on the harvesting processes of selected crops in terms of mechanical properties, losses, damage during harvesting and transport, assessment of the impact of selected factors in the storage process on their mechanical and chemical properties, with particular emphasis on their health-promoting properties, such as their sugar content , vitamin C and polyphenols, and the possibility of using the collected and stored plant materials in the food industry, e.g., as an additive-enriching beer.
Dr. Józef Gorzelany
Dr. Piotr Kuźniar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetables and fruits
- harvest technology
- transport technology
- post-harvest technology
- processing technologies
- biotic and abiotic factors
- storage
- food safety
- mechanical and chemical properties
- pro-health properties
- pro-health beer additive
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