Special Issue "Quality and Safety of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables"

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hanne Kristine Sivertsen
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Guest Editor
Consultant, sensory analyses, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: how new emerging sensory methodologies and collaborations among different scientific disciplines can improve quality and safety measurements of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With an increasing focus on environmental issues and a stronger awareness of the importance of eating more plant-based foods and less meat, we can expect increased consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. 

The consumer is the ultimate user of a product, and taste is the most important quality factor when choosing to buy a fruit or a vegetable. Measurement of taste quality, extrinsic or intrinsic, can be included in any kind of research, whether it involves different post-harvest treatments, shelf life studies, the development of new cultivars and varieties, or safety measurements during transport and handling from harvest to consumption. 

Sensory science is in constant evolution, and it is exciting to see how newer methods can contribute to easier determination of both consumer preferences and important drivers of taste, in addition to being less time consuming than more traditional methods. Artificial intelligence has shown promising results in predicting accurate instrumental as well as sensory measures. 

Using emotion to measure consumer preference from unconscious/autonomic and cognitive responses shows how differentiating between similar products can sometimes produce even more sensitive results than those achieved with the use of traditional hedonic liking scales. 

For this Special Issue, we are interested in research that explores these important products and incorporates new promising ways to highlight quality by taste, in addition to the use of other important quality-related factors.

Dr. Hanne Kristine Sivertsen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fresh fruit and vegetables
  • quality
  • safety
  • consumer
  • new sensory methodologies
  • emotion
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • instrumental

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HPLC-DAD-APCI-MS as a Tool for Carotenoid Assessment of Wild and Cultivated Cherry Tomatoes
Horticulturae 2021, 7(9), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae7090272 - 31 Aug 2021
Abstract
Carotenoids are naturally occurring fat-soluble pigments found in many organisms. Because of their extensively conjugated carbon–carbon double bond system, carotenoids are potent antioxidants. Although the most abundant carotenoid and best singlet oxygen quencher found in red tomatoes is lycopene, carotenoid profiles may vary [...] Read more.
Carotenoids are naturally occurring fat-soluble pigments found in many organisms. Because of their extensively conjugated carbon–carbon double bond system, carotenoids are potent antioxidants. Although the most abundant carotenoid and best singlet oxygen quencher found in red tomatoes is lycopene, carotenoid profiles may vary between genotypes. The objective of this work was to perform carotenoid profile indentification using HPLC-DAD-APCI-MS in ten wild cherry tomato accessions and one cultivated tomato. A mixture of hexane/acetone/ethanol (50:25:25) and 0.1% BHT was used for carotenoid extraction. For separation, a C30 column at 30 °C with a gradient consisting of methanol, methyl-tert-butyl ether, and water was used for their analysis. Ten major carotenoids were quantified within cherry tomato samples. All accessions present different profiles and quantities of carotenoids. Wild red tomatoes had more lycopene content that commercial tomato, whereas yellow tomatoes present no lycopene. From a functional viewpoint, higher concentrations of carotenoids that could play an antioxidant activity were measured from accessions IAC401, IAC426, LA1480, IAC391, and LA2692. This trait means that these germplasms may be targets for commercial activities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that HPLC-DAD-APCI-MS has been used to analyze these accessions of wild cherry tomatoes that are both functionally promising and suitable for projects with social implementation at a local scale. Full article
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