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D-pre-cooling Dictionary

Pre-cooling

Removing field heat from produce quickly after harvest

All termsIntroduced in Module 5Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
Removing field heat from produce quickly after harvest
How to use it
Cool fresh produce within hours of harvest, by shade, evaporative cooling or a cold room, to slow decay and extend selling time.
South African benchmark
South African export fruit is pre-cooled at the pack-house before cold storage (Article 28).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
C5 Lesson 5.2, M5-U5
Calculate it
No calculator; the term is applied in the venture plan narrative.
Library sources
LIB-A025, LIB-A057, LIB-A088
See also
Cold chain, Post-harvest loss
The cold chain from picking to buyer, with the danger hours before coolingThe cold chain: the clock starts at pickingPickfield heatPre-coolpack-houseCold truckreeferCold storedepot or portBuyershelfDanger hours: produce warm, losing valueKept cold without a break from pack-house to shelf
Pre-cooling, shown as a diagram.

Introduced in C5 Logistics and Cold Chain.