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The document discusses three studies on the quality assessment of fruits and vegetables. The first study examines the sensory quality of eggplant fruits affected by cultivar and maturity, finding significant impacts on sensory properties. The second study highlights the importance of quality grading in the vegetable supply chain in Southern Philippines, revealing asymmetric price transmission, while the third review focuses on nondestructive methods for assessing produce quality, addressing challenges and future research trends.

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The document discusses three studies on the quality assessment of fruits and vegetables. The first study examines the sensory quality of eggplant fruits affected by cultivar and maturity, finding significant impacts on sensory properties. The second study highlights the importance of quality grading in the vegetable supply chain in Southern Philippines, revealing asymmetric price transmission, while the third review focuses on nondestructive methods for assessing produce quality, addressing challenges and future research trends.

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Gajewski, M., & Arasimowicz, D. (2019).

Sensory quality of eggplant fruits (Solanum


melongena L.) as affected by cultivar and maturity stage. Polish Journal of Food and
Nutrition Sciences, 13(3), 249-254.

Sensory quality of eggplant fruits harvested at three stages of maturity was examined. Eggplant
cultivars: ‘Impulse’ F1, ‘Epic’ F1 and ‘Cubanita’ F1, which differ in fruit shape, were chosen for
the experiment. The quality of the fruits was evaluated by the panel of trained assessors and a
quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA) was used for that assessment. Nineteen descriptors for
fruit quality were chosen in an expert panel. Consumer preference test was also performed.

Results showed that both cultivar and maturity stage significantly affected some sensory
properties of fruits – sharp odour, odour of steamed potatoes, flesh colour, number of seeds,
flesh firmness, flesh fibrousness, skin hardness, bitter taste, pungent flavour and overall quality.
Overall sensory quality score was the highest for cv. ‘Impulse’ F1 and for the fruits harvested at
the earliest maturity stage. The correlation between consumer preference and QDA results was
significant. Linear multiple regression models were constructed for the prediction of overall
quality scores and overall preference.

Digal, L. N. (2019). Quality grading in the supply chain. Journal of International Food &
Agribusiness Marketing, 17(1), 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1300/j047v17n01_05

At first glance, standards and grading may appear to be mundane, bureaucratic details.
However, in the vegetable industry of Southern Philippines, they hold surprising importance.
This paper explores the crucial role of quality grades or standards within the supply chain, using
the vegetable industry of Southern Philippines as a case study. A model is employed that
demonstrates how grading provides information that reduces the search costs for buyers. When
standards are inadequate, information becomes distorted, resulting in asymmetric price
transmission.

The data collected show that a majority of the farmers surveyed grade their vegetables in order
to secure better prices and minimize transaction costs. The primary data analysis was
supplemented with secondary data analysis by estimating a price asymmetry model. The results
reveal that price transmission is symmetric for cabbage but asymmetric for onions. This
asymmetry in price transmission implies that marketing information is not effectively
transmitted through the food chain, highlighting the necessity of establishing quality grades to
improve supply chain efficiency.
Tian, S., & Xu, H. (2022). Nondestructive methods for the quality assessment of fruits and
vegetables considering their physical and biological variability. Food Engineering Reviews,
14(3), 380–407. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12393-021-09300-0

Fresh fruits and vegetables are crucial components of our daily lives. Over the past twenty
years, researchers have intensively studied how to assess the quality of these products using
nondestructive sensing techniques. This review discusses the progress made in detecting both
internal and external quality attributes of fresh produce. Various nondestructive spectroscopic
and imaging techniques have been employed, including visible/near-infrared spectroscopy,
time-resolved and space-resolved spectroscopy, machine vision, hyperspectral and multispectral
imaging, fluorescence techniques, X-ray imaging, computed tomography scanning, magnetic
resonance imaging, and Raman techniques.

One challenge in evaluating produce quality is the great physical and biological variability
among different types of fruits and vegetables. Factors like size, shape, color, temperature,
cultivar, season, maturity level, and geographical origin can all impact quality assessments. To
mitigate the influence of this variability and enhance inspection accuracy, numerous correction
and compensation methods have been developed. These include preprocessing, light intensity
transformation, global modeling, band math, model transfer, and more. This review provides a
detailed summary of these various methods, along with their respective advantages and
disadvantages.

Despite the progress made, there are still challenges to be addressed in the spectroscopic and
imaging technologies used for nondestructive quality assessment of fresh fruits and vegetables.
This review reveals these current problems and discusses future research trends in this
important field.

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