Lecture 1: Introduction Flashcards
What is the primary objective of food processing?
preservation
What are two main objectives of preservation?
- prevent undesirable changes (maintain wholesomeness, nutritive value, sensory qualities)
- control activities (chemical, biochemical, physiological, microbiological)
What are other objectives of food processing besides preservation?
- product diversification
- value addition
- convenience foods
- marketing needs
- ingredients isolation and synthesis
- non-conventional foods
what are fundamental unit operations of intermediate moisture foods?
heating cooling drying mixing blending
what is considered primary processing?
and secondary processing?
primary: harvest/slaughter and post harvest processing
secondary: maufacturing of processing food products
what technologies are involved in primary processing and secondary processing?
primary: post harvest storage technology and handling
secondary: food processing technologies
what are food processing methods that use addition of heat?
pasteurization and sterilization
what are food processing methods that use removal of heat
refridgeration and freezing
what are food processing methods that use high pressure and pulse electric field
non thermal technologies
what are food processing methods that use radiation and heat?
IR
MW
RF
what are food processing methods that use radiation without heat generation?
UV
irradiation
what are food processing methods that use control of environment
CA/MA storage and packaging (controls respiration rate to extend shelf life)
what are food processing methods that use removal of liquid water
evaporation
concentration
membrane
what are food processing methods that use concentration by extraction
SCFE: super critical fluid extraction
describe SCFE
uses CO2 to bring food into a super critical state, where it will act like a liquid which is more powerful than gas in heat processing
what are food processing methods that use separation of constituents?
extraction
what are food processing methods that use composition control
dissolved oxygen
fermentation
salting
smoking
what are food processing methods that use preparation
washing
grinding
mixing
what are the 3 most widely used commercial processes of food preservation?
- thermal processing
- freezing
- dehydration
what are fundamental dimensions?
dimensions used to characterize a physical quantity under consideration
what are the two types of fundamental dimensions?
- absolute: mass, length, time, temp
2. gravitational systems: mass, length, time, temp, force
what is a unit used to determine?
magnitude or size of a dimension