To achieve satisfactory signal-to-noise ratios, compounds should be present in high concentrations or localized in specific organs or organelles. Furthermore, their resonant frequencies should not be too close to that of water. Species that largely satisfy these criteria in fruit and vegetables include sugars and lipids, the distribution of lipid in pecan embryos being amongst the earliest MR images published. The (CH2)n resonance is about 3.5 ppm away from water, and patterns showing lipid distribution have been published. The earliest MR images published .for account, coffee , grape, groundnut, kiwifruit, olive, pecan, and orange peel. Apart from fruit such as olive and coconut, where lipid accumulates in the pulp( mesocarp ) of the maturing fruit, or orange peel, where oil is compartmentalized, lipids are seen to be concentrated in seeds. Single images of sugar distribution have been presented for limited number of small fruit: namely, blueberry, grape, kiwifruit and pea. The chemical shift difference between water and fruit sugars is about 1.1Hz. Because of the close proximity, there is some overlap between the large water resonance peak and the typically smaller, satellite, sugar resonance. Thus pulses which selectively excite sugar protons. The problem is compounded further by magnetic susceptibility effects which broaden both resonance peaks creating even greater overlap. Useless these effects are adequately countered the resulting sugar image will be ‘contaminated’, making it difficult to distinguish artefacts and genuine sample features. It is clearly of interest be able to investigate the distribution of sugar during maturation and ripening processes non-invasively. Attempts to achieve this objective centre around development of improved pulse sequence experiments which produce artefact-free images by selectively suppressing the interference from water to below noise level or incorporate 2D correlation spectroscopy to discriminate resonances. Such an achievement would allow determination of sugars at even lower concentrations.