Food processing
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Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing includes many forms of processing foods, from grinding grain to make raw flour to home cooking to complex industrial methods used to make convenience foods.
Primary food processing is necessary to make most foods edible, and secondary food processing turns the ingredients into familiar foods, such as bread.
Tertiary food processing has been criticized for promoting overnutrition and obesity, containing too much sugar and salt, too little fiber, and otherwise being unhealthful.
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Industries
Food processing industries and practices include the following:
- Cannery
- Fish processing
- Food packaging plant
- Industrial rendering
- Meat packing plant
- Slaughterhouse
- Sugar industry
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See also
- Best before
- Brewery
- Canning
- Dietary supplement
- Enzyme
- Flavoring
- Food additive
- Food and Bioprocess Technology
- Food coloring
- Food extrusion
- Food fortification
- Food quality
- Food rheology
- Food science
- Food storage
- Genetically modified food
- List of cooking techniques
- Material handling
- Nutraceutical
- Pasteurization
- Pink slime
- Shelf-life
- Snap freezing
- Ultra-high temperature processing
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