Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption reduces risk factors for cancer, cardiovascular disease and a number of other diet-related chronic diseases. These foodstuffs contain relatively high levels of beneficial phytochemicals (plant-derived, biologically active compounds) among which the preventative activity of antioxidants are most well-known and well-documented. Since small fruit typicall...

The champa (Campomanesia lineatifolia) is a very perishability berry with pleasant taste. objective of this research was to study the regulation and prolongation postharvest conservation fruits using 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) refrigeration. Two experiments were carried out: In experiment 1, four treatments evaluated understand maturation. were: control, 1-MCP, ethylene 1-MCP + ethylene. stor...

Although there are diverse kinds of leafy vegetables in Nigeria, fluted pumpkin is one the most consumed. However, high perishability its leaves has been a source concern, which mild processing suggested literature as way out. Several studies have done on production and profitability pumpkins. none exist consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for processed pumpkins based sensory/organoleptic attri...

Enzymatic browning is a common limiting factor in the fruit industry because it causes significant losses through fresh product deterioration, affecting taste, flavor, and nutrition. Artocarpus odoratissimus, locally known as terap, an exotic indigenous to Borneo. This remains underutilized due its perishability, short shelf-life, peel browning. Currently, no information has apparently been pub...

negative impact of delays on customer service level by keeping redundant inventory or safety stock. Although safety stock protects companies from disruptions or delays, this comes at a cost because higher inventory levels tie up working capital and increase inventory management costs, such as warehousing and damage rates. In addition, the higher inventory level increases the risks associated wi...

BACKGROUND Nutrition professionals that have menu planning and disaster management responsibilities should consider factors that have transcended from ancient to current times, in addition to recognizing societal trends that have led to our current increased vulnerability in the event of a disaster. Hence, we proceeded to develop a set of "Disaster Response Diets" (DRDs) for use in urban societ...

This paper is an in-depth treatment of an inventory control problem with perishable items. We focus on two prototypes of perishability for items that have a common shelflife and that arrive in batches with zero lead time: (i) sudden deaths due to disasters (e.g., spoilage because of extreme weather conditions or a malfunction of the storage place) and (ii) outdating due to expirations (e.g., me...

Cherimoya (Annona cherimola Mill.) is a subtropical tree crop that belongs to the Angiosperm family Annonaceae, which also includes sugar apple and soursop. Cherimoya flowers are pollinated by beetles and characterized by a marked protoginous dichogamy. In regions where cherimoya is now cultivated, the lack of native efficient pollinators forces the implementation of hand-pollination, thus incr...

W analyze planning and scheduling of multiproduct batch operations in the food-processing industry. Such operations are encountered in many applications including manufacturing of sorbitol, modified starches, and specialty sugars. Unlike discrete manufacturing, batch sizes in these operations cannot be set arbitrarily, but are often determined by equipment size. Multiple batches of the same pro...

Optimization path is a complicated issue to manage the manufacture and distribution of fresh food, influenced by several parameters, such as its perishability. Producers cannot ensure that manufacturing decisions will be efficient accurate. Using 15 prefecture-level cities in China case study, this paper gathers organizes relevant data indicators rural economy agricultural ecological environmen...