FRUIT PROCESSING QUALIT Y MEASURING Assessing fruit quality By Melanie Epp Contributing Writer THE BENEFITS OF being able to assess fruit quality and maturity in the field and in storage are many. Knowing the best time to harvest, store or process fruit can extend shelf life, ensure quality, reduce waste and increase profits. Four companies offer great solutions to help you do just that. 10 MARCH/APR I L 2 02 0 Impact Vision Impact Vision is a software company that has developed hyper spectral imaging machine-learning software that helps food companies, produce distributors and exporters understand internal quality. Impact Vision is suitable for assessing everything from dry matter content in avocadoes to the shelf life of salad to foreign objects in potatoes, said CEO Abi Ramanan. Felix Instruments F-750 Produce Quality Meter and Avocado Quality Meter on display at STEP Systems' booth at Fruit Logistica. Photo: Melanie Epp SEVERAL NEW TOOLS IN DEVELOPMENT IMPROVE FRUIT HARVESTING, PROCESSING Impact Vision was one of a cluster of start-up companies featured at Fruit Logisitica 2019 in Berlin. The main advantage of this technology is that it replaces destructive sample-based tests and visual inspection with a fully automated system for quality control. " You are effectively generating 100 times more information and really improving the way in which products are ripened, sorted and