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The quality of processed fruit products depends on the quality of the incoming fruit, which in turn depends in large part on how the fruit is harvested, handled, and stored. Although processors can use fruit that is unacceptable as a fresh product, the costs of sorting, trimming, and related operations must be considered. Thus, an understanding of the operations necessary to deliver quality fruit to a processing plant is important to maintaining economic processing operations.
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Prussia, S.E., Woodroof, J.G. (1986). Harvesting, Handling, and Holding Fruit. In: Woodroof, J.G., Luh, B.S. (eds) Commercial Fruit Processing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7385-8_2
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