Project
Fresh on Demand - Improving the Quality of Fruit and Vegetable Chains
Consumers want high-quality fruit and vegetables that taste delicious and have a long shelf life. At the same time, they expect links in the chain to ensure food safety and sustainability and they explicitly ask for reduced use of chemical pesticides and packaging that is less harmful to the environment. How do you achieve that while maintaining product quality and in a way that even increases the consumption of fruits and vegetables? This is what various Wageningen experts are investigating in a collaboration with businesses in this public-private project.
Smart Chain Concept
The participants in this project mainly work on the development of knowledge about physiological quality, measuring and detection methods, smart and targeted use of information from various links in the chain, and other tools that meet food safety and sustainability requirements. The key principle in this is to improve intrinsic quality control: the smart chain concept. They will share this knowledge and these tools on a knowledge platform to allow other companies to benefit from them as well.
Fresh on Demand is a follow-up to the GreenCHAINge project.
Seven Sub-Projects
Fresh on Demand consists of seven sub-projects:
- Biomarkers for quality
- Taste and Non-Destructive Measurements
- Intermodal Transport of Fresh Products by Train
- Optimising the Quality of the Chain for Tropical Fruits
- Firm and Tasty Blueberries
- Food Safety of Freshly Cut Fruits and Vegetables
- Application of Sustainable and Dynamic MA Packaging Material
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Publications
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Main goals of the post-harvest processing technologies, improving quality of the crops and reducing losses
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S-Fruit Transformation - 2020
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Temperature uniformity, air flow and fuel efficiency in a 45ft reefer container : Climate chamber tests on 45ft intermodal refrigerated container PVDU385011[6]
Wageningen: Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 2179) -
K-value of BODU2000233 : Measurement and analysis
Wageningen: Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 2180) -
Fresh on Demand, DP4: Optimization of the tropical fruit supply chain : Papaya 'Tainung', experiments 2019-2021
Wageningen: Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 2363) -
Fresh on demand, DP4: optimization of the tropical fruit supply chain : Papaya 'Tainung', experiments 2022
Wageningen: Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 2449) -
DP5 – Blueberries Chain : Summary slides all project
Wageningen: Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 2455)