DESCRIZIONE
A system for comparing perishable goods including: a storage device (80) to store consumer parameters (84) and historical quality parameters (82) associated with the perishable goods; and a quality management system (90) coupled to the storage device. The quality management system including; a current quality module (92) to determine current quality parameters (101) of the perishable goods in response to the historical quality parameters; a quality projection module (94) to determine predicted quality parameters (102) of the perishable goods in response to the historical quality parameters and the consumer parameters; a cost analysis module (96) to determine cost parameters (103) in response to at least one of the historical quality parameters, the consumer parameters, the current quality parameters, and the predicted quality parameters; and a comparison module (98) to determine output parameters (100) in response to at least one of the historical quality parameters, the consumer parameters, the current quality parameters, the predicted quality parameters, and the cost parameters.