Abstract:The optical properties of fruit and vegetable tissues are closely related to their chemical compositions and physical structures.Thus，these optical properties can be used for fruit and vegetable quality assessments.To ensure food quality and consumer health，diverse techniques have been developed for optical property measurement and quality assessment of fruits and vegetables.The paper described the principles and characteristics of five typical optical techniques （i.e.，time resolved，frequency domain，spatial resolved，spatial-frequency domain imaging，and integrating sphere spectrophotometry）for optical property measurement of fruits and vegetables.The application of each measured optical property to quality evaluation was then summarized.Finally，perspectives regarding future use of optical property measurements for fruit and vegetable quality assessments were discussed.The review could provide references for interested researchers to gain more insights into optical property measurement and fruit and vegetable quality evaluation.