Trends and challenges on fruit and vegetable processing: Insights into sustainable, traceable, precise, healthy, intelligent, personalized and local innovative food products

•The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of local F&Veg processing solutions.•The work of F&Veg processing requires breaking down barriers across disciplines.•The beyond processing trend may be to integrate the human mind, i.e., human-machine collaboration.•There is no one-size-fits-all approach of the trade-offs between crisis and opportunity.•New perspectives for the future work on F&Veg processing are suggested.