A REVIEW ON FRUIT QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHODS

Abstract

Quality assessment and grading of fruits using non-destructive methods have received much focus in recent years. To provide guidelines for research on non-destructive methods and suggest promising fruits of interest for future research, 140 research papers on non-destructive fruit quality assessment from Scopus database in the period of 2016 - June 2021 were selected for detailed analysis. The levels of interest for various kinds of fruits and non-destructive approaches with the corresponding best performance were determined. The results showed that Visible-Near Infrared spectroscopy is gaining much interest. Besides mango and apples which gain the most research interest, fruits that attracted less research interest should be promising research object because less research publications might imply an unsatisfied need of non-destructive assessment of fruit quality. Particularly, non-destructive technologies should be developed appropriately to assess the quality of a geographical indication fruit of high economic value.