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Fruit Volatile Analysis Using an Electronic Nose
Published on: March 30, 2012
Nondestructive measurement of fruit and vegetable quality
Bart M Nicolaï1, Thijs Defraeye, Bart De Ketelaere
1BIOSYST-MeBioS, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; email: bart.nicolai@biw.kuleuven.be , thijs.defraeye@biw.kuleuven.be , bart.deketelaere@biw.kuleuven.be , els.herremans@biw.kuleuven.be , maarten.hertog@biw.kuleuven.be , wouter.saeys@biw.kuleuven.be , thomas.vandendriessche@biw.kuleuven.be , pieter.verboven@biw.kuleuven.be.
Abstract:
We review nondestructive techniques for measuring internal and external quality attributes of fruit and vegetables, such as color, size and shape, flavor, texture, and absence of defects. The different techniques are organized according to their physical measurement principle. We first describe each technique and then list some examples. As many of these techniques rely on mathematical models and particular data processing methods, we discuss these where needed. We pay particular attention to techniques that can be implemented online in grading lines.
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