Other Methods Of Food Storage

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:59:28 +0000

Once the necessity of food storage on small and major scales is recognized and implemented by both individuals and agencies, enough food can be stocked at homes, granaries, freezers, home pantries and collective pantries etc.
Of all the traditional and modern methods available to people, because of innovations in food storage procedures, the ones that best preserve freshness, taste, flavor and texture are preferred, as people will not want to compromise on food quality.
Some of the methods of food preservation and storage are dehydration or storage procedures, freeze and/or spray-drying processes, irradiation by rays, burying food under the ground under specific and controlled heating conditions, treating food with friendly bacteria to offset the effects of harmful bacteria and thus prevent contamination and rotting and spoilage of food and many others.
Preserving food in anti-microbial liquids like vegetable oils like gingelly oil or olive oil, vinegar or alcohol and brine, that is, water with high salt content, boiling food in sugar solutions till the sugar crystallizes and food is preserved as a dry product, pickling of fruits, vegetables, roots are other interesting food storage procedures. Cold storage procedures are used to preserve potatoes in very large quantities. Drying processes remove water content in grains like rice, wheat, maize etc to preserve them for years and years.

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Other Methods Of Food Storage