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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

Special Senses: Eye | Physiology and Anatomy | Assignment

        Eye Human eye, in humans, specialized sense organ capable of receiving visual images, which are then carried to the brain. Physiological Significance of Eye  Create mental image of external world  Perception of : location, size , shape, color and texture of objects  If object moving: speed and direction  An image is formed on the retina by the refractive surfaces of the eye.  The light energy is transduced into electrical signal by the rods and the cones ( Photoreceptors).  The information needed to create the mental image is encoded by the neurons within the retina. Human eyeball  is roughly spherical, being a little flat from above downwards. The optic nerve enters the eyeball, a little inside the posterior pole, through the optic disc.  Tunics   From outside inward, the wall has three coats:  Fibrous coat Vascular coat Nervous coat. Fibrous coat : It has two parts:   Posterior (5/6ths) is opaque and called the sclera. Anterior (1 / 6th) is transparent, called the cornea. The