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Bruising in fresh crops is a major challenge of the horticulture industry, which can cause quality degradation and losses throughout the pre-harvest to the post-harvest stages. A visual understanding and/or detailed description of the mechanical behavior of fruits under different loading scenarios using analytical and physical experiments are complicated topics. This is particularly more complicated in fruits with a thicker peel. Vulnerability of grapefruits to mechanical damage under an external compression force was predicted in this study using the finite element method. The simulation results showed that the internal texture reach the yield point at 9.55 and 13.7 mm of longitudinal and transverse displacements, respectively, although the peel showed no sign of damage under these displacement values. However, according to the experimental data, the samples needed 29.47 and 36.55 mm displacements at the …