From the desk of the QfreshLAB Team—
The importance of quantifying respiration rate (RR):
The QfreshLAB can measure and quantify the respiration of your products at different temperatures and under differing levels of abuse and stress. This allows us to map respiration rate changes under differing conditions. If fresh produce modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), design is attempted and respiration has not been quantified, then shelf life will not be optimized!
After quantifying respiration rate with several different scenarios, we can design a package to optimize shelf-life. The image below shows a comparison of respiration rate and shelf-life between different types of popular produce found in the market.
The higher the respiration rate, in combination with extended shelf, life the greater the need for optimally designed MAP.
