Postharvest Handling of 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: closed (17 March 2023) | Viewed by 10245
Special Issue Editors
Interests: postharvest handling and fruit storage; postharvest treatments; postharvest physiological disorders; fruit quality; preharvest factors and storage potential of fruits; chilling injuries of fruits
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Interests: postharvest physiology of fruits and vegetables; fat of plant origin
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The postharvest handling of horticultural products, especially fruits and vegetables, plays an important role in quality preservation and food loss reduction. Estimated postharvest food losses worldwide are between 20% in developed countries and 40% in developing countries. The raising awareness of food deficiency in some parts of the world as well as the high cost of production of fruits and vegetables lead to the need to decrease food losses by better postharvest handling from farm to fork. As influence on consumer habits, storage and handling is limited, it is important to improve postharvest handling at the producer and distributor levels. Interest in consumer health and environmental safety has encouraged the scientific community to study new approaches and develop new postharvest approaches. Fruits and vegetables are highly perishable commodities, and one important approach to delaying spoilage is the use of edible coatings (films), which have been used for many years. The use of edible coatings preserves fruits and vegetables from pathogen-caused decay and environmental conditions, and can prevent or prolong physiological disorders in produce. Recent studies have investigated the possibility of using edible coatings enriched with bioactive compounds not only to preserve the postharvest quality of fruits and vegetables, but also to improve their nutritional value to obtain final products which can be considered functional foods. Other interesting approaches include methods for the extraction of bioactive compounds from food waste (peels, seeds, processing remains, etc.) for later use in enriched edible coatings or for other applications in functional foods.
This Special Issue aims to present advanced studies of methods and innovations in the field of postharvest handling of fruits and vegetables, with special emphasis on the use of edible coatings. We hope to receive your contributions in the form of research articles, reviews, short notes, and opinion articles related to the postharvest handling of fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Goran Fruk
Prof. Dr. Rajko Vidrih
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- edible films
- coatings
- fruits
- vegetables
- quality
- preservation
- bioactive compounds