Fruit Testing

Testing facilities

Landseer can test  various aspects of fruit quality

• Pressure
• Soluble Sugars
• Starch
• Respiration
• Ethylene
• Dry Matter
• Chlorophyll degredation
• Colour

Equipment

In our fully equipped Post harvest testing laboratory we have  Fruit Texture Analysers,Three Gas Analyzers that  measures levels of Ethylene, CO₂ and O₂ to maintain optimal produce quality, ICA  56 Ethylene monitors,, Shore metres, dehydrators and refractometers The traditional method of measuring starch degradation as an indication of maturity has served us well over the years but modern technology has enable us to take a giant leap forward. Landseer has developed a method of  predicting the point when starch  conversion starts to break thus allowing apple crops to picked on time for maximum storability

Comparison trials

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