A large number of apples are wasted each year due to bruising. A novel ultrasonic technique has been used to assess apple contacts to provide a greater understanding of the bruising process and to provide validation for an FE apple model which will be used as a design tool to optimise apple packaging to reduce the advent of bruising.
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