Food processing

Food processing means the ways that are used to change raw ingredients into food so that they can be eaten by humans or animals. The food processing industry uses these processes. Food processing often takes clean, harvested or slaughtered and butchered components and uses these to produce attractive and marketable food products. Similar process are used to produce animal feed.

Industries

Food processing industries and practices include the following:

• Cannery
• Cooking
• Industrial rendering
• Meat packing plant
• Slaughterhouse
• Sugar industry
• Vegetable packing plant

Food Processing Media

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  Industrial cheese production

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  These whole, dried bananas in Thailand are an example of primary food processing.

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  Baking bread is an example of secondary food processing.

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  Wakefield, Nebraska Michael Foods plant

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  A form of pre-made split-pea soup that has become traditional

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  Processed seafood – fish, squid, prawn balls and simulated crab sticks (surimi)

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  Meat packages in a Roman supermarket

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  Factory automation - robotics palettizing bread

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  Women working in a cannery

Related pages

• Food preservation
• Farming
• Cattle
• Fishing

Other websites

• Food processing Faraday Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Foodprocessing Informational Website
• Hyfoma Food processing and manufacturing knowledge Portal
• Institute of Food Technologists
• How to choose a food processor Archived 2010-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Food Processor Review Archived 2021-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Food Processor Recipes
• Food Processing Technology
• U.S. association of suppliers to the global food, beverage and pharmaceutical processing industries