The food chain may be followed from the grower to the consumer.
The grower and distributor need primarily to retian harvested quality until the product reaches (for instance) the processor.
Optimum quality retention may be achieved by selection of packaging with some activity, such as humidity buffering or ethylene scavenging.
Processors need to differentiate their products form those made by others from the same raw materials, and so will be expecting contribution from simplification of plant operations – such as by eliminating juice debittering operations and replacing this with active packaging.
Cost saving on packaging operations, such as reduced vacuum use, and packaging material cost would be other inputs.