Define two basic principles of food processing?
The fundamentals of food processing, as you may recall, involves the following two basic principles:
- Prepare the products fit for consumption.
- Destroy or inactivate pathogens found in food.
Based on these principles, the common unit operations for food processing include:
- Thermal processing: cooking, blanching, pasteurization, canning etc.
- Dehydration
- Cold preservation: refrigeration and freezing
- Fermentation
- Irradiation