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Food Processing and Food Products Developments Assignment

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  Food Processing and Food Products Developments Food Processing  Food Processing is the set of Methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transform food into other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing industry. Food processing typically takes clean, harvested crops or slaughtered and butchered animal products and uses these to produce attractive, marketable and often long-life food products. Similar process are used to produce animal feed. Processed foods are foods that have been changed mechanically or chemically on a domestic or commercial level. The food processing sector is highly fragmented industry, it widely comprises of the following sub-segments: fruits and vegetables, milk and milk products, beer and alcoholic beverages, meat and poultry, marine products, grain processing, packaged or convenience food and packaged drinks. A huge number of entrepreneurs in this industry are small in terms of thei

Poisonous Plants and Natural Pesticides

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  Poisonous Plants and Natural Pesticides Definition of  Poisonous Plants: A poisonous plant is one which, as a whole or a part thereof, under all or certain conditions and in a manner and in amount to be taken or brought into contact with an organism will exert or cause death either immediately or by reason of cumulative action of the toxic property due to the presence of known or unknown chemical substance in it, and not by mechanical method. Definition of Natural Pesticides: Pest is any animal, plant or microorganism that causes trouble, injuries or destruction; therefore, pesticide may  be defined simply as chemical agents used to control or eliminate pest.  Datura/ Stramonium Synonyms: Thornapple leaves; Jimson or Jamestown weed; Dhatura; Stinkweed; Devil's apple: Apple of Peru; Folia stramonii. Biological Source: Stramonlum consists of dried leaves and flowering tops of Datura stramonium Linn. or its variety D. tatula . Family: Solanaceae. Geographical Source/Distribution: