1st Edition

Fruit and Vegetable Quality An Integrated View

Edited By Robert L. Shewfelt, Bernhard Bruckner Copyright 2000
    352 Pages
    by CRC Press

    346 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Improved quality requires integration across business functions and scientific disciplines. Based on this premise, Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View presents 15 unique perspectives on achieving greater quality and guidance for a more integrated approach to postharvest handling and fruit and vegetable research.

    Designed for anyone involved in the management, production, handling, distribution, or processing of fruits and vegetables, it provides concise descriptions of important issues, roadmaps to the literature in specific fields, assessments of current knowledge and research needs, and specific examples of product-based research. Your guide to the dynamic developments in integrating fruit and vegetable quality projects, Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View also presents a range of options for achieving better coordination of research across scientific disciplines.

    Preface
    R. L. Shewfelt and B. Brückner

    CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

    Food Supply Chains: From Productivity toward Quality, W.M.F. Jongen
    Quality and Breeding - Cultivars, Genetic Engineering, P. Wehling
    Consumer Preferences and Breeding Goals, S. Pecher and M. von Oppen

    FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

    Effects on the Quality of Stored Apple Fruit, D. S. Johnson and M. S. Ridout
    Environmental Effects on Product Quality, M. Schreiner, S. Huyskens-Keil, A. Krumbein, I. Schonhof and M. Linke
    Postharvest Handling and Storage of Vegetables, T. Nilsson

    QUALITY

    Acceptability, L. M. M. Tijskens
    Fruit and Vegetable Quality, R. L. Shewfelt
    Consumer Preference, Z. Andani and H. J. H. MacFie
    Instrumental Data - Consumer Acceptance, B. Brückner and H. Auerswald
    House of Quality - An Integrated View of Fruit and Vegetable Quality, A. C. Bech

    AN INTEGRATED VIEW

    Economics of Quality, W. J. Florkowski
    Integrated Quality Management Applied to the Processed Vegetables Industry, J. Viaene, X. Gellynck and W. Verbeke
    Methods and Examples of Integration, S. E. Prussia
    Integrating Problem-Oriented Research, R. Kuchenbuch, B. Brückner, J. Rühlmann, and B. Röger
    A More Integrated View, R. L. Shewfelt and L.M.M. Tijskens

    Index

    Biography

    Robert L. Shewfelt, Bernhard Brückner