Vocabulary Term Details

Food processing

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_processing)

Food processing is the transformation of raw ingredients into food, or of food into other forms. Food processing typically takes clean, harvested crops or butchered animal products and uses these to produce attractive, marketable and often long shelf-life food products. (Wikipedia)

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This term is used for the following terms: 
Processing of foods

Approved Date
30-Jan-2014

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