Natural Sciences and Technology Grade 6-A - Thunderbolt Kids

Benefits of food processing
Food processing adds many benefits to our modern lives:
Transportation of fresh food
is quite dicult. If producers
can process the fresh fruit
and vegetables in some way,
the food is easier to transport.
Delicate products like grapes,
strawberries and peaches can
be transported much easier.
The processing also helps the
fruit and vegetables to last
longer.
This truck collects the pear and
apple boxes and transports
them.
• Today people can eat fresh fruit and vegetables all year round
and do not depend on seasonal availability because of
modern methods to process and transport these products.
Therefore food processing and transportation makes the
modern 'balanced' and varied diet possible.
• Many times food and beverage producers add extra vitamins
and nutrients to their food to make it healthier for their clients.
• Buying and preparing processed food is also more convenient
and less time-consuming.
• Foods are processed to preserve them, such as when fruits
are preserved to make jam, or pickled, such as pickled onions.
This ginger has been pickled and preserved so that it lasts
longer.
Chapter 4. Food processing
VISIT
Making cheese at
home (video).
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