Postharvest Quality & Food Safety Consulting
Our programs are personalized to your operation, and focus on how to reduce losses, improve fruit quality and safety, increase consumption, and expand markets.
Who We Are
Carlos H. Crisosto
The team at Postharvest Quality Consultants is led by Carlos H. Crisosto, who has over 42 years of experience performing postharvest research in all of California’s fruit and nut crops, as well as international research studies and publications. This includes working for the University of California as a Distinguished Professor, specializing in Postharvest Technology, as well as publishing over 190 peer-reviewed papers.
42+ Years
Of experience working with growers, packers, shippers, retail stores and consumers to improve their programs.
30+
Total number of fresh fruit and nut crops evaluated, in order to improve the postharvest quality and flavor of the products.
Our Work
Completed projects
Including proper handling, ripening and storage techniques, introducing new cultivars to the market, sensory studies, saving the peach industry from chilling injury, and much more!
TESTIMONIALS
What our clients say
Improved Business
We started using Dr. Crisosto’s preconditioning research in 1996, which helped immensely with taste, and our first commercial shipments went out in 1997. And, today, that customer that received the first shipment is still one of our biggest customers. Actually, they have gone from 80 stores to 300 stores, so it has been a nice and steady, consistent ride. Mike Thurlow, Owner and Sales Manager at Mountain View Fruit Sales
Revolutionary
With Dr. Crisosto’s excellent postharvest physiology research, and supported by his ability to explain the science, through written protocol and in-person teaching, together we changed the way our products were delivered. Shippers were able to command an upcharge for enhanced quality, retailers enjoyed increased sales, and consumers bought more fruit with confidence. David S. Parker, Former CA Tree Fruit Agreement Promotion Director
An Industry Leader
Dr. Crisosto has been a leader in postharvest physiology and application, cooperated with many growers, farm advisors, shippers, pest control advisers, and other researchers and specialists, and that is why industry representatives ask always for his advice on how to produce fruit to please consumers by increasing fruit quality and solve any problems in fruit and nut production. Themis J. Michailides, AES Plant Pathologist at UC Davis