SmartFresh - Transplant Shock Technology
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As consumer demand for higher-quality, fresher produce rises, retailers in turn demand the same from growers and packers. To help you meet the challenge, SmartFresh™ technology works with your quality-management program to help you deliver consistently better produce and capture key advantages and benefits. Optimizing returns, saving energy and improving peak freshness, SmartFresh™ enhances your storage systems to help you deliver on your customers’ high expectations—and deliver your freshest produce further.
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Energy Savings
SmartFresh™ technology not only protects your produce, but also helps reduce energy use for the good of people and the world.
A range of studies has quantified the positive energy savings customers get when using SmartFresh technology—proving that the use of SmartFresh together with controlled atmosphere storage can contribute significantly to improved energy efficiency and lower carbon footprint without compromising quality.
Due to the lower metabolism and respiration rate of SmartFresh fruits, fewer hours are needed for refrigeration, defrosting, ventilation, O2 addition and CO2 scrubbing. When SmartFresh is combined with changes in the storage regimes (for example, night cooling or increase of storage temperature), the energy efficiency is even more noticeable: carbon footprint reductions and cost savings are measurably higher.
In one study, Gala apples were stored with SmartFresh technology at 4°C, while the control apples were stored at the standard temperature of 1.5°C. The SmartFresh storage room used 35% less energy than the control storage room. A sensorial study carried out after storage clearly showed consumers’ preference for SmartFresh quality apples.
This study also revealed a decrease in weight loss for fruits stored with SmartFresh technology, which led to a weight gain of 630 additional kg. (Kompetenzzentrum Obstbau-Bodensee, Germany).
The Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige has proven that quality benefits with SmartFresh technology for Italian Red Delicious and Fuji are still excellent if the apples were cooled exclusively at night. The lower costs of electricity during nighttime represent cost reductions of about 50%. In addition, the lower metabolism of the SmartFresh fruits significantly reduces the need for CO2 scrubbers.
At the end of the storage period, important energy savings were calculated (28% to 34%) and CO2 release was greatly reduced (between 29% and 55%).
SmartFresh technologies also lead to energy savings in transport. For example, SmartFresh quality avocados can be shipped from the southern hemisphere in regular air conditions, but without SmartFresh technology they need controlled atmosphere conditions, which involves necessarily higher energy consumption. Also shipping from the southern hemisphere, South African SmartFresh quality plums can be kept longer at 7.5°C instead of -0.5°C, reducing energy consumption.
Advantages and Benefits
Growers and packers rely on SmartFresh™ technology to deliver multiple benefits—from providing better firmness maintenance for highly ethylene sensitive fruits to protecting fruit quality for exports and long-distance transportation. But the benefits also extend directly to retailers and consumers, too.
SmartFresh provides improved shelf life of fruits in ambient temperatures. In French retail research studies, more than 80% of plums with SmartFresh technology maintained top quality after seven days compared to just 48% of control fruits. Marketing tests have proven that consumers come back for better quality fruit, thus retailers will see an increase in customer satisfaction.
AgroFresh’s traceability studies show that fruit shipped long distances arrives at stores in better condition. Additional benefits include compatibility with residue-free programs and the potential for higher profitability.
In addition, an AC Nielsen study in 24 stores in the Netherlands has proven that consumers recognize and appreciate the freshness, crunchiness and taste of SmartFresh quality apples. The comparison of 12 stores offering SmartFresh quality Elstar apples with 12 stores displaying regular Elstars over a three-month period has shown a 12% increase in sales volume.
Taste tests in the U.S. and in several European countries have proven that among consumers, 70% prefer crunchiness, 60% prefer juiciness and two out of three consumers prefer SmartFresh quality fruit.
In addition, AC Nielsen’s in-store taste tests* have shown a clear consumer preference for crunchier apples. The test apples were kept for 10 days at room temperature after controlled atmosphere storage.
Apples are a widely consumed, rich source of Vitamin C and antioxidants. Nevertheless, research has shown that the Vitamin C content decreases very quickly and at least by 50% in over two months of storage and 10 days of shelf life at regular temperature.
Several studies have proven that SmartFresh technology contributes to slowing the decrease of Vitamin C throughout the whole apple supply chain. This is particularly the case if SmartFresh is used during ultra low oxygen storage. But even with all other traditional storage methods, there is consistent evidence that SmartFresh helps maintain the Vitamin C content in a number of crops.
For instance, French studies in 2007 on the Vitamin C content of SmartFresh kiwifruit compared to regular stored kiwifruit indicated 15 to 25% more Vitamin C in the SmartFresh kiwifruit. Other recent studies found positive results with regard to flavonoid content retention and antioxidant activity in SmartFresh™ quality apples and pears.
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