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  • From: "Bruce Hansen" <brucehansen@ACD.NET>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] FW: Hi-Tech Camera "Tastes" Apples to Ensure Quality
  • Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:24:22 -0400

Tom:

I raise antique apples and the only reason to do so, in my way of thinking,
is taste. That includes culinary and cyder apples as well. It doesn't appear
to me that you are jaded. Most things of value require work. Tasting is a
piece of that.

Bruce



-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Olenio
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:56 AM
To: NAFEX
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] FW: Hi-Tech Camera "Tastes" Apples to Ensure
Quality


Hi,

And there is the rub... A machine will check sweetness and firmness of
every apple. Since when can you boil down an apple's complex flavor to
two things? Who is to say that the same sweetness and firmness exists
days, weeks or months after the testing was done?

That would be like judging wine by alcohol content and color found on a
single day of aging.

Since I assume they are talking about commerical varieties, available in
supermarkets they are not super concerned with taste, but primarily
storage and eye appeal, taste ranking last of the three.

Can you imagine running this test on a Melba the day it was ready, versus
a few days later?

I am just jaded I guess, and this will benefit someone in commercial
apple production.

Later,
Tom

--

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

>
>
> ----------
> From: ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>
>
> STORY LEAD:
> Hi-Tech Camera "Tastes" Apples to Ensure Quality
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to check an apple's taste before buying it, without
> chomping down? You surely wouldn't want an inspector pre-tasting the apple
> you buy, but how about a robot?
>
> The robotic inspection cameras envisioned by Agricultural Research Service
> scientist Renfu Lu would "taste" every single apple by bouncing light off
> it to sense sugar content and firmness, the top two things that make an
> apple taste great.

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