Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Registrant processed chicken:   
Value added:   
Fresh vacuum-sealed 
38.3 %
35.2 %
39.8 %  
37.6 %
35.2%
Fresh chill-packed 
32.9
35.6
31.0
34.7
36.9
Fresh bulk-packed 
14.4
15.1
16.4
15.1
13.9
Frozen 
6.2
6.5
6.7
5.1
6.3
Subtotal 
91.8
92.4
93.9
92.5
92.3
Non-value added:   
Fresh ice-packed 
1.2
1.2
1.0
0.9
1.0
Subtotal 
1.2
1.2
1.0
0.9
1.0
Total Company processed chicken 
93.0
93.6
94.9
93.4
93.3
Minimally prepared chicken 
7.0
6.4
5.1
6.6
6.7
Total 
100.0 %
100.0 %
100.0 % 
100.0 %
100.0%

text: Products
text: The Registrant has the ability to produce a wide range of processed chicken products and prepared chicken items.
text: Processed chicken is first salable as an ice-packed, whole chicken. The Registrant adds value to its ice-packed, whole chickens by removing the giblets, weighing, packaging and labeling the product to specific customer requirements and cutting and deboning the product based on customer specifications. The additional processing steps of giblet removal, close tolerance weighing and cutting increase the value of the product to the customer over whole, ice-packed chickens by reducing customer handling and cutting labor and capital costs, reducing the shrinkage associated with cutting, and ensuring consistently sized portions.
text: The Registrant adds additional value to the processed chicken by deep chilling and packaging whole chickens in bags or combinations of fresh chicken parts, including boneless product, in various sized, individual trays under the Registrant’s brand name, which then may be weighed and pre-priced, based on each customer’s needs. This chill-pack process increases the value of the product by extending shelf life, reducing customer weighing and packaging labor, and providing the customer with a wide variety of products with uniform, well designed packaging, all of which enhance the customer’s ability to merchandise chicken products.
text: To satisfy some customers’ merchandising needs, the Registrant freezes the chicken product, which adds value by meeting the customers’ handling, storage, distribution and marketing needs and by permitting shipment of product overseas where transportation time may be as long as 60 days.
text: The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the contribution, as a percentage of net sales dollars, of each of the Registrant’s major product lines.

Questions:
question: What does the Registrant do?
answer: produce a wide range of processed chicken products and prepared chicken items.
question: How is processed chicken first salable as?
answer: as an ice-packed, whole chicken
question: What is the subtotal of the value added as a percentage of net sales dollars in fiscal year 2019?
answer: 91.8
scale: percent
question: What is the average value added from fresh vacuum-sealed registrant processed chicken as a percentage of net sales dollars for fiscal years 2018 and 2019?
answer: 36.75
derivation: (38.3+ 35.2)/2
scale: percent
question: What is the change in the contribution from minimally prepared chicken between fiscal years 2018 and 2019 as a percentage of net sales dollars?
answer: 0.6
derivation: 7.0-6.4
scale: percent
question: What is the average contribution from minimally prepared chicken from fiscal years 2017 to 2019 as a percentage of net sales dollars?
answer: 6.17
derivation: (7.0+ 6.4+ 5.1)/3
scale: percent