This paper has given the reasons for the widespread use of O2 absorbers in active food packaging. Strawberry has a short life due to high consumption rate of O2. The results showed that O2 absorbers could be used to slow down strawberry metabolism and mold growth since O2 absorber groups maintained the quality better than control group at refrigerated temperatures. It is interesting to note that there were no significant differences between ATCO-100 and ATCO-210 in terms of quality analysis. The second major finding of this study was that FT-NIR represents an innovative alternative to monitor fruit quality changes such as strawberry. This study has also highlighted the effectiveness of O2 absorbers on
fresh strawberry quality during twenty one days of storage. After twenty one days of storage, control strawberries were not marketable due to losing of visual quality but still consumable according to panelists. Future studies should focus on enhancing quality of strawberries combining with active packaging technologies and innovative preservation methods.