Prediction of bruise susceptibility of harvested kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) using finite element method

•The postharvest kiwifruit was modeled as a multiscale body of flesh and skin.•A finite element model was developed to simulate the drop case process.•The stress, force, energy, and bruise behavior of kiwifruit were described by FEM.•The compared results showed the low-level errors between simulation and experiment.