Food Preservation

Handbook of Food Preservation presents the information necessary to design food processing operations and goes on to describe the equipment needed to carry them out in detail. The book covers every step in the sequence of converting raw material to the final product. It also discusses the most common food engineering unit operations and food preservation processes,such as,blanching,pasteurization,chilling and freezing to aseptic packaging,non-thermal food processing and the use of biosensors.The book provides information regarding the common food preservation methods such as blanching,thermal processing of foods,canning,extrusion cooking,drying or dehydration of foods,chilling and freezing. It also describes the principles and applications of new thermal and non-thermal food processing technologies,i.e.,microwave heating,ohmic heating,high pressure processing etc.