Food Processing and Packaging Technologies

Food Processing is the set of methods and techniques are used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transfer food into other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing industry. Food processing typically takes clean, harvested crops or slaughtered and butchered animal products and uses these to produce attractive, marketable and often long-life food products. Food Processing methods are peeling, mincing, chopping or slicing, emulsification, fermentation, liquefaction, baking and packaging. Food Packaging provides protection, tampering resistance, and special physical, chemical, or biological needs. It may bear a nutrition facts label and other information about food being offered for sale. Packaging preservers food and prolongs it shelf life by protecting it from bacterial damage, moisture and insect attack. Some packages preserves food for a very long time, such as tins.