Purpose of Food Preservation
• The main reasons for food preservation are
• To overcome inappropriate planning in agriculture,
• Areas, times, and amounts
• Raw food material, increasing storage life using
• To produce value-added products,
• Consumer demand for healthier and more convenient foods
• To provide variation in the diet
• People like to eat a wide variety of foods with different tastes and flavor
• In addition food preservation, storage and distribution are also important factors in achieving food security.
• In food preservation, the important points that need to be considered are desired quality, desired shelf-life, and target consumers