Compare and Contrast between Old and New Food Technologies. Comment.
Food Technology: It is the branch of food science that deals with the food production process. It deals with the Selection, preservation, processing and packaging of the food.
In early age, scientist research into food technology that was the concentration of food preservation. For example: Louis Pasteur, a renowned scientist, researched on the spoilage of vine. In 1864, he describes how to avoid spoilage of vine. It was his early attempt to apply scientific knowledge to food handling. Pasteur developed the process of Pasteurization, the process of heating milk and milk products to destroy food spoilage.
Developments in food technology: All the changes in food technology …show more content…
• Process Optimization: Food technology has now allowed production of foods to be more efficient now. In different forms, Oil saving technology is now available on different forms. Food production methods are now very sophisticated.
How terrifying food technology has changed our lives?
Food technology has changed our life completely. In modern age, we don’t need to use old food preservation techniques. No need to roast the meat. No need to eat raw vegetables. No need to make a oily pickle.
Old Food Technology:
Cooking: Early cooks had no need of new-fangled appliances to prove their culinary prowess. In the days before ovens, saucepans and utensils, a simple stone over a hot fire was all that was required to rustle up a tasty meal.
Roasting meat over a fire remained virtually the sole culinary technique until the Paleolithic period, when the Aurignac people of southern France started wrapping their food in wet leaves and steaming it over a pile of embers. Wild grains were toasted on flat rocks and liquids heated in hollowed stones. Pottery, invented in the Neolithic period, paved the way for modern day cookery …show more content…
Two earliest methods of treating food to help them being fresh and improve the food flavors are Salting and drying.
Early methods of food preservation: Food preservation techniques have been known to man since antiquity.
• The use of fire to cook, heat and dry foods may be described as the earliest form of food processing.
• Foods may be processed by exposure to dry heat (e.g. roasting) or wet heat (e.g. boiling) or cooked in oil (e.g. frying)
Until the 19th century, all methods of food preservation relied heavily on creating an environment unsuitable for microbial growth (e.g. use of salt, sugar, spices, acid, fermentation, drying) Canning: The concept of canning first introduced by Nicholas Appert, was a revolution. It differed from all known methods of food preservation by killing the microbes by heat and hermetically sealing the container, thus avoiding subsequent contamination. The ability of heat to extend the shelf-life of foods was first described by Nicholas Appert between 1803 and
Food Technology: It is the branch of food science that deals with the food production process. It deals with the Selection, preservation, processing and packaging of the food.
In early age, scientist research into food technology that was the concentration of food preservation. For example: Louis Pasteur, a renowned scientist, researched on the spoilage of vine. In 1864, he describes how to avoid spoilage of vine. It was his early attempt to apply scientific knowledge to food handling. Pasteur developed the process of Pasteurization, the process of heating milk and milk products to destroy food spoilage.
Developments in food technology: All the changes in food technology …show more content…
• Process Optimization: Food technology has now allowed production of foods to be more efficient now. In different forms, Oil saving technology is now available on different forms. Food production methods are now very sophisticated.
How terrifying food technology has changed our lives?
Food technology has changed our life completely. In modern age, we don’t need to use old food preservation techniques. No need to roast the meat. No need to eat raw vegetables. No need to make a oily pickle.
Old Food Technology:
Cooking: Early cooks had no need of new-fangled appliances to prove their culinary prowess. In the days before ovens, saucepans and utensils, a simple stone over a hot fire was all that was required to rustle up a tasty meal.
Roasting meat over a fire remained virtually the sole culinary technique until the Paleolithic period, when the Aurignac people of southern France started wrapping their food in wet leaves and steaming it over a pile of embers. Wild grains were toasted on flat rocks and liquids heated in hollowed stones. Pottery, invented in the Neolithic period, paved the way for modern day cookery …show more content…
Two earliest methods of treating food to help them being fresh and improve the food flavors are Salting and drying.
Early methods of food preservation: Food preservation techniques have been known to man since antiquity.
• The use of fire to cook, heat and dry foods may be described as the earliest form of food processing.
• Foods may be processed by exposure to dry heat (e.g. roasting) or wet heat (e.g. boiling) or cooked in oil (e.g. frying)
Until the 19th century, all methods of food preservation relied heavily on creating an environment unsuitable for microbial growth (e.g. use of salt, sugar, spices, acid, fermentation, drying) Canning: The concept of canning first introduced by Nicholas Appert, was a revolution. It differed from all known methods of food preservation by killing the microbes by heat and hermetically sealing the container, thus avoiding subsequent contamination. The ability of heat to extend the shelf-life of foods was first described by Nicholas Appert between 1803 and