What is the definition of processed food??!
What is the definition of processed food??
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Processed Food is when you take natural products such as vegetables, spices, meats, etc and processes it in factories to create new marketable products like cereal, microwave dinners, hot dogs, etc. Processed food makes up the bulk of the average person's diet and is unhealthy and unnatural.
"A series of operations performed in the making of a product." Basically food that is not in it's pure and natural state.
Here is a complete definition of processed foods and what specifically has been done to each item to cause it to be labeled processed:
The food industry is a major employer whether operating at the level of the small scale entrepreneur or commercial producer. NRI research in food processing helps the processor with limited access to capital who must meet international food standards of processing and quality management to gain access to international markets.
Processing of high quality cassava chips
? University of Greenwich
Food processing research is directed at adding value to a base raw material. This is done by separation processes which extract or refine the raw material into a desired primary fraction and lower grade secondary fraction(s), by preventing raw material biodeterioration to increase shelflife and stabilise quality and/or by optimising nutritional value.
NRI has unique experience of the processing of raw materials of tropical and sub tropical origin, and is at the forefront of providing food quality management expertise to developing countries and eastern block countries seeking harmonisation of food legislation pending accession into the EU. Research focusses on small and medium scale processing of a wide range of food commodities. These include cereals, oilseeds, roots and tubers, fruits and vegetables, fish and animal products, legumes, beverage crops, and their byproducts.
Problem solving research is carried out by multidisciplinary teams involving food technologists, chemists, microbiologists, biochemists, engineers and economists. In the UK we have well-equipped processing and laboratory facilities for conducting physical, chemical, and microbiological analyses for determining changes in the quality attributes of commodities during processing and storage. Overseas we work with natinal and international organisations, NGO's and commercial companies.
Cereal milling
? University of Greenwich
Key areas of research expertise
Cereals: parboiling of rice; processing and utilisation of small grains, sorghum and millets.
Oilseeds: small scale processing of oilseeds, utilisation of by products in animal feeding systems, development of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in oilcakes, mycotoxins in oilcakes.
Roots and tuber crops: processing of cassava for use as a food, feed or starch source; mechanisms of cyanogen reduction during processing;
Fruits and vegetables: extended shelflife through modified environmental control, and a variety of drying technologies.
Fisheries: improving the efficiency of fish processing and its impact on income generation.
Beverages: Fermentation and the quality management of tea and coffee; water control in the wet coffee processing industry.
Food safety: effectiveness of traditional fermentation systems for food preservation.
Post-graduate research
Opportunities exist for postgraduates to work with the upstream research programme. Current post-graduate research topics include:
Mechanisms of cyanogen reduction during cassava fermentation under water
Development of plant enzyme based systems for controlled conversion of cassava flour into malto-dextrin syrups.
Controlling the solid substrate fermentation of cassava to optimise quality for consumers.
Osmotic drying of food: development of predictive models
Development of non-invasive and non-destructive techniques for rapid online assessment of quality of fresh fish
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Any food that has been ground up, precooked, stuffed, stewed, or any other means of preparing the food for selling in frozen, canned, or boxed form to the public.
Any food that has been adulterated or denatured in any way.
anything that is not in it's natural state
Basically a food that is not raw.
Pretty much anything that's not fresh produce is processed.
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