The food and beverage manager should always expect that the fresh produce delivered to his or her establishment will be the same quality and degree of ripeness that they were when first harvested in the field. True or False

False.

Explanation:

The food and beverage manager shouldn't always expect that the fresh produce delivered to his or her establishment will be the same quality and degree of ripeness that they were when first harvested in the field.

The produce delivered wouldn't be as fresh, same quality and degree of ripeness that they were when first harvested because of changes in environmental conditions such as temperature and relative humidity. Also, a change in its biochemical composition would go a long way to affect the quality of fresh produce.

Hence, this would result in a change in taste, texture, degree of ripeness, nutritional value, smell etc.

However, the farmer or supplier of this food products could mitigate the change in quality by transporting them as soon as possible after harvesting, transporting at a required cold temperature, humidity and ensuring they're well packaged in a safe container during shipment.