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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

Food Biotechnology Assignment

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  Food Biotechnology WHAT IS BIOTECHNOLGY? Biotechnolgy = bios (life)+ techno (tools) + logos (study of) The study of tools from living things. It's any technological application that use biological systems, living organisms(or parts of living organisms)to make, modify, impove plants or animals for benificial use. Definations of biotechnology: Biotechnology is the application of biological organisms systems or process to manufacturing and servise industries.(British biotechnologists) Biotecnhology is integraed use of biochemestry,microbiology and engineering sciences in order to achieve technological application of microbes, cultured cells and parts there of (European federation of biotechnologists) Biotechnology is the controlled use of biological agents, such as microbes or cellular components. (U.S.Nationel science foundation) BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS : Medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology: Anti biotiques Vaccines Humain hormones(insulin) Tissue engineering Stem cells Canc