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Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transform 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. Similar process are used to produce animal feed. Extreme examples of food processing include the delicate preparation of deadly fugu fish or preparing space food for consumption under zero gravity. Common food processing techniques include Food processing dates back to the prehistoric ages when crude processing incorporated slaughtering, fermenting, sun drying, preserving with salt, and various types of cooking (such as roasting, smoking, steaming, and oven baking). Salt-preservation was especially common for foods that constituted warrior and sailors' diets, up until the introduction of canning methods. Evidence for the existence of these methods exists in the writings of the ancient Greek , Chaldean, Egyptian and Roman civilisations as well as archaeological evidence from Europe, North and South America and Asia. These tried and tested processing techniques remained essentially the same until the advent of the industrial revolution. Examples of ready-meals also exist from pre industrial revolution times such as the Cornish pasty and the Haggis Modern food processing technology in the 19th and 20th century was largely developed to serve military needs. In 1809 Nicolas Appert invented a vacuum bottling technique that would supply food for French troops, and this contributed to the development of tinning and then canning by Peter Durand in 1810. Although initially expensive and somewhat hazardous due to the lead used in cans, canned goods would later become a staple around the world. Pasteurization, discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1862, was a significant advance in ensuring the micro-biological safety of food.
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1. Bharatbook.com is glad to distribute Indian Food Processing Industry Report
October 14, 2008
Green revolution has transformed India from a land of shortage to a land of surplus. India is presently the world's second largest producer of food, and has the potential of being the biggest with developing food and agricultural sector. Growing economy, surplus food and changing lifestyle has shifted the consumption pattern, from cereals to more varied and nutritious diet of fruit and vegetables, milk, fish, meat and poultry products. This gradual progression has given rise to the food processing industry in India. The food processing sector in the country with its vast potential has emerged ... (read more)
Author: Bharat Book Bureau
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2. Coating linear bearing
October 07, 2008
Armoloy TDC is Increasing Life and Improving Performance of Linear Bearings in the Following Industries: Machine Tools Food Processing Paper Manufacturing Clean Room Pharmaceutical Robotics Added Lubricity The unique nature of the Armoloy TDC process will enhance the lubricity of your Armoloy coated rails. This added lubricity is especially important in applications requiring minimum to no lubricating agents being present in the processing line. Increased Corrosion Resistance Armoloy will improve the corrosion resistance of standard linear rails in most chemical or ... (read more)
Author: Matthew Mckernan
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3. A Guide To The Anatomy Of The Urinary System
October 07, 2008
Your urinary system consists of two kidneys, two ureters, the bladder, the uretha and two sphincter muscles. These are the organs, tubes and muscles that work together with nerves to create the system.
Your urinary system works to remove a waste product called urea from the blood. Urea is a by-product of food broken down in your system via digestion, when that food is a protein. The urea travels through the blood at this point to the kidneys for processing. Foods that contain protein would be, meat, poultry like chicken and turkey, and many vegetables contain some protein.
Kidneys ar... (read more)
Author: Jack Dobson
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4. Food Spok‘ane' of in Good Vein
September 24, 2008
So you’re heading towards the Schweitzer Mountain Resort or the Silver Mountain Resort, then you’ll most likely stopover at the Lilac city of Spokane; and most certainly would love to know about access to good restaurants there. That’s not a worry whatsoever with a town that’s one of the leaders in food processing and is also the source of many fruits and vegetables in the USA.
Spokane restaurants have been given high points for their hospitality. That’s one thing that makes even bad food very palatable. But here’s what you’d find among the best food joints in Spokane; quite a bit of Ita... (read more)
Author: ajax z
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5. How Do They Accurately Weight Packages
September 08, 2008
Commercial freezers are used in a wide variety of industrial applications. Meat freezers store product at different levels of processing, from the slaughter house, through wholesale processing, packaging, and finally retail distribution. Commercial fish processing has very similar requirements, and may even include freezers on board the fishing fleets. There are many other food related freezer applications including frozen packaged meals, frozen vegetables and fruits, frozen bakery products, frozen juices, and of course ice cream.
Of course there are also a large number of other non-food ... (read more)
Author: Chris Carter
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6. Cleaning Food Processing Refineries with High Pressure Cleaning Heads
September 08, 2008
When food refineries are in operation, they need to be used very carefully. It is important that foods not get mixed where they are not supposed to and that the components of the food processing refineries are clean at all times. These pieces need to be constantly cleaned because of the ability for food to become contaminated. We have seen this type of problem when it comes to contamination in recent news articles regarding pets and their recalled food products. The use of high pressure cleaning heads and other types of water pressure options will help to prevent this type of outbreak occu... (read more)
Author: Ultimate Washer
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7. Looking For a Career Change? Why Not Consider The Pharmaceutical Industry?
September 04, 2008
The pharmaceutical industry is a fast-paced industry that is constantly changing with technological and scientific discoveries. Working in the pharmaceutical industry can be very rewarding and those people who work in the pharmaceutical industry can expect to be constantly involved in a wide range of activities, including processing and producing medicinal drugs, developing ways to keep our food supplies safe and testing new drugs. If you are considering taking the plunge and looking to gain employment in the pharmaceutical industry, the first thing you should look at is whether you have... (read more)
Author: Adam Singleton
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8. Raw Food: What is the Raw Food Diet?
August 29, 2008
Have you started hearing about the Raw Food Diet? It’s gaining popularity and buzz, not just as a diet to lose weight, but a diet for a long and healthy life. We eat so much in the way of processed food that we don’t even stop to think about what we’re putting into our bodies, and how far we’ve come nutritionally from our ancestral, agrarian roots.
A raw food diet means consuming food in its natural, unprocessed form. There are several common-sense rationales for why this is a good idea. Processing and cooking food can take so much of the basic nutritional value away. Think of some of the... (read more)
Author: Nicholas Tan
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9. Raw Food: Fruitarian
August 27, 2008
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the value of a raw foods diet. A raw food diet consists primarily of uncooked, unprocessed fruits, vegetables, sprouts, seaweed, nuts and juices. It’s a vegetarian diet, but one that rejects any animal products. Its central tenet is that cooking and processing take out the majority of essential vitamins, enzymes and nutrients that our bodies evolved to thrive on.
Fruitarians, as the word implies, eat primarily fruits, with nuts and grains as well. A fruitarian diet also includes foods like tomatoes or avocadoes, which are fruits.
Fruit is no... (read more)
Author: Nicholas Tan
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10. Opportunities for Australian agricultural exports to Malaysia
August 22, 2008
Australia can play an important role in meeting Malaysia’s food consumption and demand for food processing inputs, according to a new ABARE report.The report, ‘Changing food consumption and imports in Malaysia: Opportunities for Australian agricultural exports’ was released today by Phillip Glyde, Executive Director of ABARE. “With continued income and population growth, Malaysian food consumption is shifting away from starchy staples such as rice and cassava and more toward wheat-based products including breads and bakery products, meat, dairy products, seafood, fruit and vegetables,” Mr G... (read more)
Author: patty patty
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11. Culinary Equipment
August 15, 2008
Having the proper tools and equipment for a particular task may mean the difference between a job well done and one done incorrectly. Depending on your level of cooking, professional chef or home cook, could determine the quality you purchase.
Many states require that food service operations use only NSF-certified equipment. NSF stands for National Sanitation Foundation. NSF standards reflect the following requirements:
1. Equipment must be easily cleaned. 2. All food contact surfaces must be nontoxic, nonabsorbent, corrosion resistant, and nonreactive. 3. Al... (read more)
Author: Bob Boeck
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12. Fine Tune your Digestion
August 13, 2008
You are not what you eat. You are what you can digest and absorb. The fundamental design of the human body is a tube – a doughnut with a hole in the middle. And we, like other animals, spend our physical lives processing organic matter through this tube for waste. How good you are at this determines your energy level, longevity and state of body and mind, as well as your digestion.
Over a lifetime, no less than 100 tons of food pass along the digestive tract and 300 000 liters of digestive juices are produced by the body to break it down. Our ‘inside skin’, a nine meter long tract with a ... (read more)
Author: Sandra Prior
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13. BCast Stainless Strainers
August 13, 2008
Tag:BCast Stainless Strainers,apparatus instrument From:http://www.apparatus-instrument.com/
BCast Stainless Products, LLC offers stainless steel inline filters/strainers for low to medium volume filtering and straining applications in the food, dairy, beverage, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
BCast in-line filters/strainers promote a higher quality, cleaner product while keeping processing equipment such as homogenizers, meters, spray nozzles, needle valves and pumps free of debris. Their stainless steel construction and free-flow design make for optimum sanitation and cor... (read more)
Author: ut ut1
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14. Apples - we look at the core issues
July 30, 2008
Why an article on apples? Who cares, we know all we need to know about those boring fruit! Well my friends here's a few things you may not know about these humble grocery items! Apples, due to a distinct lack of digital cameras and word processing devices many centuries ago, it is difficult to tell when apples were first being grown and eaten. They do appear in records in ancient China, Egypt and Greece. Ramses II (13th century BCE) had them growing as a crop in the Nile delta and the Greeks have records going back as far as the 7th century BCE. The ancient Romans listed 37 varieties many... (read more)
Author: Dimitri Papalexiou
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15. Provision for food processing, animal husbandry & fisheries in K'taka budget
July 30, 2008
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Formation of the Karnataka Agriculture Mission, increased focus on horticulture are the highlights of the state budget. Some of the key features of the state budget include the promotion of food processing, animal husbandry and fisheries.
For the first time in India, the Karnataka Agriculture Mission under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister will now help integrate and coordinate the development activities in horticulture, agriculture, animal husbandry and allied sectors.
A high-powered Mission Committee will be set up with ... (read more)
Author: ahn chilhyun
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