Application of New Postharvest Processing Technologies in Fruit and Vegetable Storage and Shelf-Life Preservation
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent agriculture; diversified utilization of biological resources; food packaging applications
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Dear Colleagues,
Fruits and vegetables are indispensable to the human diet, and how they are handled after harvest determines their safety, quality and environmental footprint. As food science advances, consumers and regulators now demand post-harvest technologies that are simultaneously safer, greener and more efficient—posing a formidable challenge, but also opening a wealth of opportunities, for the entire horticultural value chain. Emerging materials and technologies—spanning physical, chemical, and biological approaches, such as advanced edible coatings, active packaging, nanotechnology-based delivery systems, modified and biodegradable packaging, as well as non-thermal processing technologies like cold plasma, pulsed electric fields, ultrasound, and ozone treatment, alongside biocontrol agents and light-emitting diode (LED) technology—are already expanding the toolbox available to processors, while mechanistic insights into ripening, senescence and host–pathogen interactions are providing the theoretical scaffold on which the next generation of preservation strategies can be built. This Special Issue invites cutting-edge research that showcases novel post-harvest materials and technologies, and that deepens our understanding of the biological principles underpinning fruit and vegetable preservation, with the ultimate goal of accelerating the sector’s transition toward sustainable, high-quality and waste-free supply chains.
Dr. Lingxia Huang
Dr. Jinping Cao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit and vegetable
- postharvest processing technologies
- preservative materials
- emerging technologies
- preservation mechanisms
- environmentally friendly and sustainable
- the quality changes in fruits and vegetables
- the metabolism of fruits and vegetables
- inhibit pathogenic microorganisms
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