Monitoring strawberry production to get grip on strawberry quality: GreenCHAINge Fruit & Vegetables WP3

The Greenchainge project is a large project financially supported by the industry and Foundation TKI Horticulture comprising different sub-projects focussing on different fruit and vegetable products. One of the sub-projects (work package 3) is dedicated to strawberry and is carried out with and by Driscoll’s BV, Bakker Barendrecht BV and Wageningen Food and Biobased Research (WFBR). One of the main goals of the soft fruit project is to contribute to the understanding of strawberry quality and as such pave the way towards controlling quality to supply high and constant strawberry quality. Therefore, one of the key research question in this project is which chain parameters affect quality directly. Hence, a large-scale quality monitoring research was set up together with the companies involved in the project. The main goal of this monitoring research was to get insight in the pre and post-harvest parameters that influence the quality of strawberries, meaning the quality at harvest and shelf life.