Fig. 4. Cutting force profile through the cross-section regions from epidermis to cortex, endodermis and xylem of carrot pieces after PEF treatment owing to (a) effect of parallel and vertical
positioning of the carrot piece (pre-conditioned at 10 °C, 0.8 kV/cm, 20 μs pulse width for 30 and 2400 pulses at 1 and 80 Hz respectively)