Food processing/production

Question 1

Primary foods

Answer 1

Primary foods are raw foods, which have received little or no processing.

Question 2

Secondary foods

Answer 2

Secondary foods have received more complex processing which makes them into composites or products.

Question 3

Components

Answer 3

Components are individual ingredients, which make up a product.

Question 4

Composites

Answer 4

Composites are foods which have been made out of several components (e.g. filo pastry) and are then further processed to make up the final product.

Question 5

What is primary processing?

Answer 5

When raw food is changed or converted into foods that can be eaten
immediately or into ingredients that can be used to make other food products. Examples include:
washing vegetables
squeezing fruit to make fruit juice
heat treatments for pasteurisation so that milk is pasteurised
wheat milled into flour.

Question 6

What is secondary processing?

Answer 6

This is converting primary processed foods into other food products e.g. flour into biscuits/pastry/cakes or milk made into cheese/cream.