Different presentation in broccoli will include bunches (14 and 18), crowns, china cut crown and florets. Packed in our harvesting machines in the fields will be transported to the packing shed to cool it in the vacuum cooler or iced in the ice injector depending how our customers prefer it. Quality Good quality broccoli shuld have dark or bright green closed florets. The head should be compact, with a cleanly cut stalk of the required length. There should be no yellow florets and there should be no discoloration on the stem bracs. Temperature Low temperature is extremely important to achieve adequate shelf life in broccoli. A temperature of 0 is required to optimize broccoli storage life (21 - 28 days). Heads storage at 5 can have a storage life of 14 days; storage life at 10 is about 5 days.