Title: Resource: Handling Vegetables and Fruits
Course: RSC_FST1100_CANVASCOURSE > Section: Week 2

There are many types of machinery to handle the many types of processing that occurs with vegetables and fruits. Watch the following videos to gain a little insight into the specialization necessary for each processing plant.

In this video, Food Factory USA - Season 1, Episode 16: McLovin It, shows how McDonald's fries are handled. Pay attention to the cultivars of potatoes used and watch through the first five minutes to see the potatoes cleaned, sorted, and cut for french fries.

Food Factory USA - Season 1, Episode 16: McLovin It

Watch Food Factory USA - Season 1, Episode 14: Muffin But The Best from the 8:54 minute mark to the 13:00 mark in order to see cherries being processed. They don't disclose what type of cherry they are using, but it is probably a certain cultivar that works best for this process.

Food Factory USA - Season 1, Episode 14: Muffin But The Best

Next take a look at the first 6 minutes and 30 seconds of Food Factory USA - Season 1, Episode 12: Full of Beans to see green beans coming in from the fields to be cleaned, sized, sorted and snipped before canning.

Food Factory USA - Season 1, Episode 12: Full of Beans

How do processors clean and wash the salad greens that are in the fresh salad aisle? Watch Tecnoceam Salad Line with Insect Separation, all 6 minutes. There is no audio portion to this video. This Italian company produces fruit and vegetable processing lines and this is not a promotion of their business. They make a good video for prospective clients, and it has the elements needed to help students understand this course.

Tecnoceam Salad Line with Insect Separation