Food Preservation
Food preservation refers to the techniques used to prevent food from spoiling. It includes different methods like drying, irradiation, pasteurization and adding of additives.
Food preservation is extremely important in the food industry as majority of the food products need to be preserved. Major causes which are responsible for spoilage of food are attack of pathogens and oxidation of food.
Some methods of food preservation are
- drying
- Salting
- Freezing
- Smoking
- Fermenting.
- Drying
- Refrigeration and freezing
- Salting and pickling
- Dehydration
- Irradiation
- Fermenting technology
- Canning Technique
- Oxidation process