Significant physical attributes affecting quality of Indian black (CTC) tea

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-78

  Laddi, Amit ^a   Prakash, Neelam Rup ^b   Sharma, Shashi ^a   Mondal, Himanka Sekhar ^a   Kumar, Amod ^a   Kapur, Pawan ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION   (India)

^b PEC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Color attributes; Indian black tea; Machine vision; Mechanical grades; Principal component analysis; Quality grades

Indexed keywords

BLACK TEA; COLOR ATTRIBUTES; MECHANICAL GRADE; QUALITY ESTIMATION; QUALITY GRADE; SIZE AND SHAPE; TEA SAMPLES; VISION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER VISION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

COLOR;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 84863314606     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2012.05.020     Document Type: Article

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