Handbook of Postharvest Technology: Cereals, Fruits, Vegetables, Tea, and SpicesAmalendu Chakraverty, Arun S. Mujumdar, Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy The Handbook of Postharvest Technology presents methods in the manufacture and supply of grains, fruits, vegetables, and spices. It details the physiology, structure, composition, and characteristics of grains and crops. The text covers postharvest technology through processing, handling, drying and milling to storage, packaging, and distribution. Additionally, it examines cooling and preservation techniques used to maintain the quality and the decrease spoilage and withering of agricultural products. |
Contents
Structure and Composition of Cereal Grains and Legumes | xv |
Physical and Thermal Properties of Cereal Grains | 11 |
GrainGrading Systems | 35 |
Harvesting and Threshing | 51 |
Grain Drying Basic Principles | 113 |
GrainDrying Systems | 133 |
Commercial Grain Dryers | 161 |
Grain Storage Perspectives and Problems | 177 |
Maturity and Quality Grades for Fruits and Vegetables | 479 |
Cooling and Storage | 499 |
Packaging of Fruits and Vegetables | 533 |
Transportation and Handling of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables | 549 |
Potential Applications of Volatile Monitoring in Storage | 579 |
Irradiation of Fruits Vegetables Nuts and Spices | 617 |
Drying of Fruits Vegetables and Spices | 647 |
Coffee A Perspective on Processing and Products | 691 |
Structural Considerations Warehouse and Silo | 209 |
Controlled Atmosphere Storage of Grain | 229 |
GrainMilling Operations | 247 |
Specialty Milling | 321 |
Rice Milling and Processing | 367 |
Dehulling and Splitting Pulses | 391 |
Milling of Pulses | 421 |
Postharvest Physiology of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables | 449 |
Tea An Appraisal of Processing Methods and Products | 735 |
Postharvest Technology of Cocoa | 773 |
Conversion and Utilization of Biomass | 791 |
Utilization of ByProducts of Fruit and Vegetable Processing | 813 |
Control Aspects of Postharvest Technologies | 839 |
Index | 861 |
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