Food Preservation

This refers to the processes you use to prepare food for safe, long-term storage, whether you plan to use it at home, for prep in a commercial kitchen, or to sell directly to consumers.

• Food Technology

• Food Innovation

• Food Preservation

• Food Science

This preserves food by removing oxygen through an airtight seal and containing food in an acidic, sugary, or salty environment, where bacteria cannot thrive.

• Salting

• Sugaring

• Canning

• Freezing

This is a kind of Salting by which you apply salt to the food, such as meat, and leave it to draw out the water.

• Dry Curing

• Wet Curing

• Mild Curing

• Strong Curing

Better known as brine, you mix salt with water and add food to the liquid to preserve it.

• Dry Curing

• Wet Curing

• Mild Curing

• Hard Curing

Similar to canning,this method deprives bacteria of oxygen by creating an airtight atmosphere.

• Freezing

• Salting

• Vacuum Packing

• Vacuum Cleaning

This is a method of preserving food by lowering the temperature to inhibit microorganism growth.

• Salting

• Sugaring

• Heating

• Freezing

Which is not a method of Food Preservation?

• Mixing

• Salting

• Canning

• Freezing

What method of Food Preservation used in making a Strawberry Jam?

• Freezing

• Salting

• Sugaring

• Vacuum Packing

Which of the following is not a benefit of Food Preservation?

• To minimise pathogenic bacteria

• To express freedom

• To keep food at its best quality

• To save money

How can Food Preservation affect your people's lives?