§ 77420 Strawberry Processing Definitions

• •Processing strawberries means getting them ready to sell, like washing, cutting, or freezing them.
• •Anything that changes the strawberries to make them ready for the store is called processing.
• •This includes putting them in cans, grading them by size, or even just cleaning them.

A farm picks strawberries and washes them, cuts off the stems, and packs them into plastic containers to sell at the grocery store.

All these steps—washing, cutting, and packing—are part of processing the strawberries to get them ready for people to buy.