March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
32h 58m
English
Materials of biological origin are usually not as stable as most inorganic and some organic materials. Hence, it is necessary to use certain processing methods to preserve biological materials, especially foods. Physical and chemical processing methods of preservation, such as drying, smoking, salting, chilling, freezing, and heating, are commonly used. Freezing and chilling of foods were discussed in Section 5.5 as methods of slowing the spoilage of biological materials. Also, in Section 9.11, freeze-drying of biological materials was discussed.
An important method is heat or thermal processing, whereby contaminating microorganisms that occur ...
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