Fruit and Vegetable Industry Session N°3

Technology innovations for fruits and vegetables quality control.

Consumers have become more demanding for high-quality and convenient food products with natural flavours and taste, free from additives and preservatives. Therefore, the challenge for the F&V industry is to develop such products, taking into account quality and safety aspects along with consumer acceptance. Emerging, unconventional processing of F&V is more and more studied in order to develop products rich in bioactive compounds, paying attention at the same time to waste and by-product valorisation.
The challenge remains implementation at scale, cost and access by operators from developing countries exporting to international markets. The demands for higher quality control should go hand in hand to affordable technologies allowing the value chain actors to deliver the expected quality. The adoption of relevant skills remain also a challenge.