Quality Sorting of Red Delicious Apples by Light Transmission

Barbara B. Aulenbach, John N. Yeatman and John T. Worthington

No 313679, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: Light transmission is an established nondestructive technique for evaluating the internal quality of many horticultural products. Although an apple transmits less than 0.1 percent of the light falling on it, the characteristics of this transmitted light have been related to quality and maturity. The objectives of this research were to (1) search for wavelength pairs that might be more closely related to apple quality than ΔOD (695-740 nm.), (2) evaluate light transmission as a quality-sorting technique for Red Delicious apples, and (3) compare controlled atmosphere (CA) and conventionally stored apples that had been previously sorted by light transmission.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 1972-05
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313679/files/mrr936.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uamsmr:313679

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313679

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().