We assess consumer demand for traditional fresh potatoes and processed potato products and willingness to pay for new experimental low-acrylamide and sulfite-free potato products. Demand for fresh potatoes, potato chips, and fries is unaffected by household income or education, but demand for chips and fries is affected by consumer age and exercise habits. Subjects display increased willingness...

Hortic. bras., v. 20, n. 3, set. 2002. C demand for fresh-cut products has grown rapidly during the past few years. The foodservice industry has strived to prepare, handle and deliver a fresh, healthy and convenient product to the consumer. Processing freshcut produce involves steps such as cleaning, washing, trimming, coring, slicing, shredding, and other related operations (Cantwell, 2000). T...

Production of fresh vegetables for export has grown rapidly in a number of countries in sub-Saharan African over the past decade. This trade brings producers and exporters based in Africa together with importers and retailers in Europe. Large retailers in Europe play a decisive role in structuring the production and processing of fresh vegetables exported from Africa. The requirements they spec...

Demand prediction is a hot research field in markets management, especially for fresh agricultural products prediction based on supply chain management. Based on BP neural network, a new demand prediction algorithm for fresh agricultural products is presented in the paper. First, the structure and data indicators of BP neural network algorithm are redesigned and the training function is selecte...

Background: Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is a common Maillard reaction product directly formed from dehydration of sugars under acidic conditions during heating and storage in carbohydrate rich foods. The aim of the present study was to detect and quantify the amount of HMF in date syrup by HPLC method. In addition, the amount of HMF in date syrup produced by traditional and industrial methods w...

Fresh-cut produce industry, one of the fastest growing food industries in the United States, has been rapidly expanding in the last two decades. The flourishing of the fresh-cut produce industry is attributable to the high value placed by modern consumers on foods that are fresh, nutritious, and convenient. However, the recent food borne illness outbreaks associated with the consumption of pack...

Introduction: Consumption of fresh herbs plays a major epidemiological role in the transmission of some parasitic food-borne diseases. Some manufacturers are producing different kinds of fresh packaged ready-to-eat packaged herbs in Iran. Therefore, this study was carried out in order to evaluate the parasitic contamination in ready-to-eat fresh packaged herbs produced by one of major manufactu...

This paper studies the strategic channel decision-making of fresh agricultural product enterprises from perspective consumer convenience preferences. research is carried out under background upgrading domestic consumption and explosion stay-at-home economy in China recent years. In this paper, consumers are segmented firstly according to their different preference for time, namely, preference. ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires food processors to implement and validate processes that will result in significantly minimizing or preventing the occurrence of hazards that are reasonably foreseeable in food production. During production of fresh-cut leafy vegetables, microbial contamination that may be present on the product can spread throughout the production batch when the p...