Is your fruit hydrocooled? If you like ripe fruit, it should be.
Hydrocooling is the process of taking the field heat out of the fruit after harvest before packing. It allows pickers to harvest fruit at a riper stage than fruit that is packed without hydrocooling. Our summer temperatures can hover around 100 degrees, so it is important to bring down the temperature of the fruit to around 58 degrees before packing. We only cool to 58 degrees because it was discovered that temperatures below 58 can lead to staining and splitting in tree fruit. Hydrocooling is just one essential part of our complex program that ensures we deliver the ripest, best tasting fruit.