Modern food processing developed from the needs of armies and travellers for large quantities of safe and portable food. It later provided convenience food for our modern lifestyles. In the 21st century crops may begin life in the laboratory and food may be preserved by irradiation
FOOD processing is not new. For as long as agriculture has existed, people have had to find ways of keeping crops to provide food between harvests. Processing grain, fish, meat and dairy products was, and still is, a way of using valuable and limited supplies of food in the most economical and efficient way.…
