What is Food Preservation?

 The method in which a food can be used and kept for a long time without any damage in the food product is known as food preservarion . the father of food preservation is NICOLAS APPERT . he was the first person to find out the preservation technique called CANNING.

this method of food preservation can be done in various methods:

1. canning

2.retorting

3.heating

4.freezing

5.pasteurization

6.pickling,salting and many more techniques.

these techniques will sure help in many ways to prevent the food getting damages.

in olden days the food was preserved by using the salting method. the main thing for doing all these methods is for some of the reasond listed below:

1.to get products during off-seasonal time.

2.to protect the product when taking to long distsnces.

3.to prevent from damaging of the product over a long time. 

4.to prevent the product from microbial attack.

5. Also prevent the food materials from the attack of rodents and pest.

also these methods are the main task for the food technologists.. The more ways to preserve and store foods are breifly explained in these notes which helped me a lot in referring. BALL COMP BK OF HOME PRESERVING 

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