Food Preservation

Food preservation is the process of treating and handling food to stop or slow down spoilage (loss of quality, edibility or nutritional value) and thus allow for longer storage.

• Preservation processes
• Drying
• Refrigeration
• Freezing
• Vacuum packing
• Salt
• Sugar
• Artificial food additives
• Pickling
• Lye
• Canning and bottling
• Jellying
• Potting
• Jugging
• Irradiation
• Pulsed electric field processing
• Modified atmosphere
• High pressure food preservation
• Burial in the ground
• Controlled use of micro-organism
• Biopreservation
• Hurdle technology
• Smokehouse