While you might not grab a lemon as a juicy snack, they are one of the most common fruits for cooking and baking, including the zest and even the leaves – often used to make tea. Lemon oil is also used in aromatherapy!
Optimizing lemon fruit quality control and ripeness testing has an impact on the whole value chain, from growers and pickers, to warehouses, marketing companies, wholesalers, online marketplaces, retailers, and consumers. If you can successfully optimize the way that you approach quality control for lemons at each stage, whether that’s growing and harvesting, or shipping and storing, you can reduce waste, and also increase your profit and the productivity of your workers.
That’s exactly what we’re doing at Clarifresh, by introducing a streamlined lemon quality standard for all stakeholders, using the Clarifresh platform which is based on AI and analytics.
The following internal and external lemon attributes are commonly used for quality evaluation:
For the full list of attributes that the Clarifresh platform currently evaluates and recommended quality standards for each, download our free app now.
The Clarifresh platform also integrates with 3rd-party technology to evaluate external tomato attributes. Learn more here.