Principles, methodologies and technologies of fresh fruit quality assurance

Trending the principles of quality assurance through years is necessary to ensure that the consumers' rights in assessing quality products can always be sustained. This paper is designed to contribute by collecting the principles that have been defined for fruits quality perceptively and scientifically and methodologies and technologies that have been used to determine and quantify the defined principles. Objectively, consumers are purchasing fruit produce based on the quality attributes that have been guaranteed to them. However, the standard set by authorities commonly is based on external attributes of the fruits and not their intrinsic properties. To produce fresh fruits that are widely accepted by consumers, for over 10 years, fruits’ growers with the intensive research from various agricultural research department and universities have put forward methods for measuring fruit intrinsic qualities, especially soluble solids content, acidity and firmness, parameters which define flavour and sensory satisfaction.