Fruit size, color, and firmness represent crucial components for retailers, making peaches attractive for consumers, resistant to postharvest handling, and allowing an extended shelf-life.
The process of pericarp loss of firmness represents one of the most relevant aspects of fruit ripening because it makes the fruit pleasant to eat but also quite perishable, and this can cause huge economic losses.
Such a move towards firmness would represent a huge shift in Chinese policy, and jeopardise what little influence remains for the country closest to Mr Kim's wretched regime.
My son's souvenirs — he was easy to shop for when I went on business trips — were anticipatory, promises of travel, much like the handsome brass vajra, a small ritual weapon that oddly resembles a baby rattle, said to represent firmness of spirit, that sits on my desk.
Parameter R7 is the ratio Ur (recovery during relaxation)/Uf (total cutaneous deformation) and represents firmness.
During the suction phase, the skin deformation measures, first, the elastic resistance of the skin and then the viscous component, which, taken together, represent firmness.
Why might firmness be more important than size?
PCC administration represented the second step of haemostatic therapy, and followed the administration of fibrinogen concentrate, which was aimed at correcting the decreased clot firmness.
Sharing the Anglophile sentiments of his party, King went on to represent the new nation with tact yet firmness as ambassador to Great Britain for eight years (1796 1803) and again in 1825 26.
I wasn't expecting the firmness to be that soft.
