Best Practices for Fresh Fruit Cold Chain Management: Ensuring Quality from Farm to Port

Maintaining the integrity of fresh agricultural exports requires an unbroken temperate environment. Post-harvest respiration in fruits like mangoes, kiwis, and pomegranates can rapidly decay pulp structure if ambient heat is allowed to accumulate. To counter this, VGF Global deploys high-frequency vacuum pre-cooling immediately after harvest.

By drawing down field heat to optimal storage thresholds (typically 8°C - 12°C for subtropical produce) within hours of picking, we suspend metabolic aging and preserve complex dynamic vitamins.

Temperature is only one component of food transit; humidity control is equally vital to prevent dehydration or fungal breakout. Modern refrigerated transport contains atmosphere scrubbing modules that actively extract ethylene, a natural gas responsible for triggering autocatalytic ripening. Relative humidity is held tightly at 85% to 90% to maintain produce weight and crispness during 20-30 day oceanic journeys.