Salad Processing: How is Mixed Salad Made (in California)

This video demonstrates how spring mix lettuce is processed, and washed and dried to create the spring mix lettuce packs that you buy at the grocery store. In this video, you will see how bagged salad is made.

This video was taken at Fresh Venture Foods (Babé Farms) in Santa Maria, California, and shows how the different lettuces are mixed together to create the spring mix, and then go through the triple-washing step with sanitized wash water, the drying process and are packed and prepared for shipment.

For more information on salad processing: https://www.theproducenerd.com/2019/04/salad-processing-spring-mix

For more information on the harvesting of spring mix lettuce: https://www.theproducenerd.com/2018/07/harvesting-lettuce-mixes-using-a-lettuce-harvesting-machine/

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Video Chapters:
0:00 Salad processing overview
0:10 Dumping harvested lettuce bins onto the packing line
0:57 Mixing lettuce to make the different lettuce mixes
1:17 Optical sorter
1:32 Three-part lettuce rinse step with sanitized wash water
1:37 Drying the lettuce using centrifuges
1:55 Dried lettuce is transferred to a weighing machine
2:08 The lettuce is weighed and disburses the product into automated packing machine
2:54 Quality assurance step during packing
2:56 The automated packing machine seals the containers
3:14 The packed product goes through a metal detector and labeling machine and is packed into boxes

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