John Thomas Worthington
Published: 2018-09-28
Total Pages: 28
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Excerpt from Today's Fresh Tomato Marketing System and a Perspective of a System for the Future Prior to harvest the quality of the fruit is probably as good as can be produced. The volume of fruit picked allows no time for quality decisions by the picker. Fruits with defects such as catface, deformity, or cracks, or fruits with blossom-end rot, gray wall, or decay can comprise 20 percent or more of the harvest. Fingernail cuts, stem punctures, scarring, and scuffing originate at harvest. The dumping of harvested fruit into bulk bins, the weight of fruit on fruit, and movement of the tomatoes during transport from field to packing house can cause both external and internal damage to the fruit. The damage shows up as scuffing or sand scarring of the skin, cracking, or internal bruising of the fruit. External blemishes not only detract from the appearance but increase the chance of decay. Internal bruises are not always visible externally, but can cause fermentation and off flavors in the fruit. Internal damage can also manifest itself later in the ripened fruit as soft, water-soaked, disoriented, and sometimes discolored tissue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.