Define Traditional Methods of Food Processing?
Because food is so important to survival and most foods remain edible for only a brief period of time, people as the initial ages have experimented with the methods for successful food preservation. Between the products of early food conservation, were cheese and butter, raisins, pemmican, sausages, bacon and grains. Therefore, food preservation is one of the oldest technologies used by human beings. Often, in the way of many traditional technologies, the ideas and methods are passed down through the generations, from mother to daughter. Look around and everywhere you will see people processing food, wherein food is being dried, crushed, milled, canned, bottled, cooked and sweetened. Various methods of preserving food have been around for a long time. The methods like drying, pickling, salting, smoking, canning and freezing have been with us for the times immemorial. But all of these traditional methods are being updated and are in use today in some form.