Resource-efficient Production of Convenience Salads

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Resource-efficient production by Wiegert Convenience GmbH, a Viennese family business with decades of tradition in the cultivation, processing and trade of fruit and vegetables, is improving its range of ready-to-eat, pre-cut and pre-packaged salads, known as convenience salads.

Research Areas

Sustainability and Environment

Department

Applied Life Sciences

These products currently only have a shelf life of 4 to 5 days, meaning that a relatively large proportion of them do not reach consumers in time to be consumed and have to be discarded as waste. Together with Hochschule Campus Wien and the Food Research Institute, modifications to the production and packaging process are being developed to ensure an extended shelf life of 6 to 7 days while reducing the use of other resources in production, such as water. This gives the producer-consumer supply chain more time to get the products to the table so that fewer products spoil and become waste. The most precious resources besides land, food and water, are conserved and utilised more sensibly through an improved production process.