Journal
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION
Volume 62, Issue 19, Pages 5245-5266Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2021.1883547
Keywords
Citrus fruit; destructive methods; nondestructive methods; sensing
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- UGC-NFO fellowship [NFO2018-19-OBC-UTT-69212]
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Determining the maturity of citrus fruits and predicting the time of harvesting has been a challenge for producers, researchers, and food safety agencies. This review provides a correlation between maturity and internal components, overview of maturity determination techniques, and emphasizes on nondestructive methods for assessing citrus fruit maturity levels.
Owing to their health-boosting properties and other appreciable properties, citrus fruit is widely consumed and commercialized worldwide. Destination markets around the world vary in their fruit quality requirements and are also highly influenced by climatic conditions, agronomical and postharvest practices. Hence, harvesting decisions are arduous. Maturity indices in citrus fruit are highly variable and dependent on the species and varieties, growing regions, and destination markets. For decades, determination of the maturity of citrus fruit and predicting the near time of harvesting was a challenge for producers, researchers, and food safety agencies. Thus, the current review provides a correlation between maturity and internal components and an overview of techniques of maturity determination for citrus fruits. Also, stress has been given to the destructive and nondestructive methods to determine the maturity level of different citrus species. The techniques presented in this review portray continuous productiveness as an excellent quality assessment, particularly as ripening and maturity analysis tools for citrus fruits. Traditional techniques are time-consuming, laborious, costly, destructive, and tedious. Thus, these nondestructive techniques hold great potential to replace conventional procedures.
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