Judging how ripe a piece of fruit is can be a frustrating process for everyone from farmers to shoppers. Now, researchers at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) in Japan have developed a new high-tech way to check, without touching or damaging soft fruit like mangoes. All it takes is a laser and some plasma shockwaves.
Category: Science
Tags: Food, Fruit, Laser, Food technology
Source: https://newatlas.com/science/fruit-ripe-lasers-plasma-shockwaves/