Sustainable Postharvest Technologies for Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and vegetables commonly termed as fresh produce are an important component of the human diet as these provide various beneficial and essential health-related compounds. Nevertheless, fresh produce is susceptible to postharvest deterioration and decay along with loss of certain nutrients due to impropriate storage conditions and lack of standard postharvest technologies. In addition, the short shelf life is considered another major constraint that must be extended after harvest to ensure a wider availability window of the fresh produce for consumers. In this perspective, the use of postharvest approaches is considered imperative to reduce the deterioration of harvested fresh produce in order to extend their storage and shelf life potential on a sustainable basis. So, Sustainable Postharvest Technologies for Fruits and Vegetables covers various aspects of postharvest technologies with major developments over the recent past and provides a way forward for the future.

The sustainable use of various technologies and elicitors could be adapted from farm to fork in order to conserve the eating quality of fresh produce. Therefore, this book covers various sustainable postharvest treatments and technologies that could be considered highly effective for the delay of postharvest senescence and deterioration. Among the various technologies, the use of preharvest treatments, controlled atmosphere, dynamic control atmosphere, modified atmosphere and hypobaric conditions has tremendous potential for the fresh fruits and vegetables industry. In the same way, cold plasma, pulsed light, ultraviolet light, ultrasound technology, nanoemulsions, nano-packaging, electrolyzed water, high pressure processing, ozone gas, irradiations, edible coatings, vacuum packaging and active packaging with slow releasing compounds along with nanotechnology are highly practicable and possesses tremendous potential to be used in the maintenance of overall eating quality and storage life extension of the fresh produce.

Key Features:

• Overviews the major factors affecting postharvest physiology and shelf life potential of fresh produce.

• Focuses on major sustainable technologies having the potential to maintain postharvest quality and extend shelf life of fruits and vegetables.
• Describes practical and recent advances of various approaches indispensable for the maintenance of overall eating quality and food safety attainment for fresh produce on a sustainable basis.
• Covers how quality maintenance and shelf life rely on preharvest practices, nonthermal treatments, storage atmospheres, packaging materials, active packaging, edible packaging, coating application techniques, nanotechnology and ecofriendly plant extracts and natural antagonists.

Part I Postharvest and Sustainable Technologies Applications

Chapter 01 An Introduction To Postharvest Handling Technology Of Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Umezuruike Linus Opara, Israel Ogwuche Ogra

Chapter 02 Sustainable Technologies: Prospects And Potential Applications In Postharvest Storage Of Fruits And Vegetables

Nirmal Kumar Meena, Bandemuth Renukaradhya Vinod, Munishami Menaka, Prasoon Gunjan, Brijesh Kumar, Meerasabihalli Rangaswami Chandana

Part II Gaseous Atmosphere Applications

Chapter 03 Controlled Atmosphere Storage For Fruits And Vegetables

Yoshihiro Imahori

Chapter 04 Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere Technology For Fruits And Vegetables

Muhammad Rafiullah Khan, Ali Muhammad, Yaodong Guo, Majid Suhail Hashmi, Rafiq Ahmad

Chapter 05 Ozone Gas Technology For Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Vijay Yadav Tokala

Part III Light, Gas and Ultrasonic Applications

Chapter 06 Pulsed Light For Fresh Quality Preservation Of Fruits And Vegetables

Maratab Ali, Nauman Khalid, Aqsa Akhtar, Sadia Aslam, Zienab F.R. Ahmed Xinhua Zhang

Chapter 07 Cold Plasma Technology For Fruits And Vegetables Quality Preservation During Postharvest Storage

Ernesto Alonso Lagarda-Clark, Martín Ernesto Tiznado Hernández, Arturo Duarte-Sierra

Chapter 08 Ultraviolet (UV) Light Technology For Postharvest Fruits And Vegetables

Muhammad Wasim Haider, Muhammad Nafees, Mohammad Valipour, Habat Ullah Asad, Romina Alina Marc

Chapter 09 Ultrasound Technology For Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Mostafa Gouda, Xiaoli Li

Part IV Pressure Manipulations based Applications

Chapter 10 Advances In Hypobaric Storage Of Fresh Horticultural Produce

Samina Khalid, Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Hafiz Umer Javed

Chapter 11 Impact Of High Pressure Carbon Dioxide On The Processing Of Fruits And Vegetables

Ayesha Murtaza, Aamir Iqbal, Kanza Aziz Awan, Amber Tufail, Shinawar Waseem Ali, Shoaib Younas, M. Sajid Manzoor

Chapter 12 High Pressure Processing Of Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Ayesha Sarker, Md Rayhan Shaheb

Part V Packaging Materials and Emulsions Applications

Chapter 13 Nanoemulsions Based Edible Coatings For Postharvest Quality Preservation Of Fruits And Vegetables

Sajid Ali, Ghulam Khaliq, Ayesha Iftikhar, Shabir Ahmad Mir, Shahid Iqbal

Chapter 14 Nano-Packaging Technology For Conserving The Quality Of Fruits And Vegetables

Leila Taghipour, Pedram Assar

Chapter 15 Modified Atmosphere Packaging And Individual Shrink Wrapping For Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Mahmood Ul Hasan, Zora Singh, Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, Aman Ullah Malik

Chapter 16 Vacuum Packaging Science And Postharvest Quality Of Fruits And Vegetables

Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, Mahmood Ul Hasan, Sajid Ali

Chapter 17 Antimicrobial Packaging For Fruits And Vegetables

Asghar Ramezanian, Hossein Shadmanfard

Part VI Irradiation and Water based Applications

Chapter 18 Irradiation Of Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Qasid Ali, Adem Dogan, Mustafa Erkan

Chapter 19 Electrolyzed Water Based Technology For Fresh Fruits And Vegetables Shafi Ahmed, Sharmin Akther, Md. Sakib Hossain

Chapter 20 Molecular Hydrogen And Hydrogen Rich Water For Fresh Fruits And Vegetables Preservation

Nida Firdous, Aliza Batool, Shabbir Ahmad, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Sibt e Abbas, Umar Farooq, Farid Moradinezhad, Fareena Jamil

Part VII Nanotechnology Applications

Chapter 21 Potential Of Nanoparticles For Postharvest Of Fruits And Vegetables

Azri Shahir Rozman, Norhashila Hashim, Bernard Maringgal, Intan Syafinaz, Mohamed Amin Tawakkal Khalina Abdan, Akhmad Sabarudin

Chapter 22 Nanocoatings For Fruits And Vegetables

Bushra Hussain, Sajid Ali, Waqar Shafqat, Muhammad Moaaz Ali

Part VIII Edible Films and Coatings Applications

Chapter 23 Edible Films For Postharvest Quality Management Of Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Farzana Rafeeq, Sami Ullah, Kashif Razzaq, Uzman Khalil, Tanveer Hussain, Seema Kanwal

Chapter 24 Edible Coatings For Postharvest Fruits And Vegetables Storage

Sajid Ali, Muhammad Hassan, Shaghef Ejaz, Muhammad Naveed Arshad, Irfan Ali Sabir

Chapter 25 Multilayer Edible Coatings Technology For Fresh Fruits And Vegetables Somayeh Rastegar, Soheila Aghaei Dargiri, Emad Hamdy Khedr

Part IX Natural Products, Antagonistic Microorganisms and Preharvest Applications

Chapter 26 Role Of Active Packaging In Preservation Of Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

Shaghef Ejaz, Sajid Ali, Rehaba Abid, Neha Khizar, Laraib Amjad

Chapter 27 Natural Plant Extracts And Postharvest Quality Of Fruits And Vegetables

Ambreen Naz, Kashif Razzaq, Sami Ullah, Misbah Sharif, Ali Hamza, SyedBilal Hussain

Chapter 28 Antagonistic Microorganisms Technology For Horticultural Produce Soheila Aghaei Dargiri, Somayeh Rastegar, Emad Hamdy Khedr

Chapter 29 The Effects Of Preharvest Treatments On Postharvest Storage Quality Of Different Horticultural Products

María E. García-Pastor, Fernando Garrido-Auñón, Jenifer Puente-Moreno, Huertas M. Díaz-Mula, María Serrano, Daniel Valero

Dr. Sajid Ali, (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. Dr. Ali acquired BSc (Honors) Agriculture with Major Horticulture from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. He received his MSc (Honors) Horticulture and PhD Horticulture (Postharvest Physiology) from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He received advanced training in postharvest physiology of horticultural crops from US Horticultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA. Dr. Ali has authored and co-authored around 120 international papers and around 25 book chapters. He has edited a book entitled ‘Postharvest Physiological Disorders of Fruits’. He is Editor of BMC Plant Biology, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems and Academic Editor of Plos One. Dr. Ali is an active reviewer for the various international scientific journals. He has worked as a Research Officer and as a Project Development Officer in two Research Projects at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has won several research projects and awards. He teaches different graduate and postgraduate courses of horticulture.

Shabir Ahmad Mir, (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Government College for Women, M.A. Road, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He obtained his M.Sc. (Food Technology) degree from Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India, and PhD (Food Technology) from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. He received the best PhD Thesis Award for outstanding research in the field of food technology. He has organized several conferences and workshops in Food Science and Technology. Dr. Mir has published numerous international papers, book chapters and edited eleven books.

Dr. Basharat Nabi Dar, (PhD) is a distinguished expert in Food Technology, recognized for his extensive contr