
Project
GreenCHAINge - Sustainable chains fruit & vegetables
The objective of this project is to make chains more intelligent with a primary focus on quality control. The smart chain concept introduced by Wageningen is being developed further and tested in existing chains on such a scale that implementation to achieve chain management will no longer be a big step.
Improved fruit and vegetables chain
Consumers are consuming less meat and consuming more and more fruit and vegetables because of the need for a healthy lifestyle. This calls for an improvement of the fruit and vegetable chains in order to deliver products of consistent quality. This means that produce should always taste good (a combination of juicy, firm, sweet, ripe and aromatic), have a long shelf life and should be easy to use. It has been demonstrated that consistent quality products result in repeat purchases and therefore increased consumption.
Consistent high quality is needed
In order to deliver consistent high quality all year round, and also to further limit losses in the chain, an increase in chain integration is required. At present, chain links do not know what the intrinsic quality is; this applies both to produced and required quality. There is a lack of (the sharing of) knowledge, of robust measuring methods and of adequate chain systems. Chain integration for quality has not been developed sufficiently.
The project consists of seven subprojects:
- DP1: Mangos, grapes and beans
- DP2: Melons & Papayas
- DP3: Soft fruit & strawberries
- DP4: Mushrooms
- DP5: Pears
- DP6: Stone fruit
- DP7: Automatic quality inspection
Results
This project was completed with the final seminar GreenCHAINge on Thursday, March 14, 2019. The results are captured in 35 fact sheets:
Publications
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A floor cover to improve temperature distribution and quality preservation in maritime refrigerated container transport of grapes : GreenCHAINge WP1 - Table Grapes
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Wageningen Food & Biobased Research report 1733) - ISBN 9789463436601 - p. -
Aandachtspunten oogst en bewaring Conference en Elstar
: Wageningen University & Research - p. -
Assessing quality and reducing batch variety in Golden Honeydew Melons : GreenCHAINge Fruit & Vegetables WP2
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 1895) - p. -
Assessing quality and reducing batchvariety in Golden Honeydew Melons : GreenCHAINge Fruit & Vegetables WP2
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 1895) - p. -
Dynamics of ripening of avocado fruit : GreenCHAINge Fruit & Vegetables WP6
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Rapport / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 1924) - p. -
Effect of 12% CO2 during storage on quality of Allison seedless table grapes from Spain: GreenCHAINge WP1 - Table Grapes
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 1727) - p. -
Effect of storage temperature and time on quality of Thompson seedless table grapes from Greece : A simulation of Reefer transport from South Africa or South America to the Netherlands: GreenCHAINge WP1 - Table Grapes
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Wageningen Food & Biobased Research report 1736) - p. -
Fact sheets GreenCHAINge : Vegetables and Fruit
: Wageningen University & Research - p. -
GreenCHAINge Fruit & Vegetables : Work package 1: Brown coloration of cut mango fruit
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 1663) - p. -
GreenCHAINge Fruit & Vegetables : Work package 1: Formation of chocolate berries in white table grapes
Wageningen : Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research 1671) - p.