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How Does Technology Affect Food Processing?

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If you ask your grandparents what food they ate when they were at your age, you will not hear foods that you find nowadays. Various foods are available in markets. This is due to the advancement of technology in food processing. Rapid development in technology changes the way of growing, preparing, preserving, and packaging foods.
The first aspect of food processing is growing or harvesting. In the 19th century, 9 out of 10 Americans were farmers. Nowadays, the percentage of farmers drops to 2 out of 100 Americans. The decreasing number of farmers is inversely proportional to the amount of food generated; each farmer can feed 19 people per day while today, a farmer can supply food for 155 people (Prax, 2010). This happened because machines enable more work to be done by fewer human resource. Besides, motorized equipment can be operated for a longer period and work anytime the farmer needs it. Moreover, with the presence of biotechnology and genetic engineering, crops are …show more content…

As food technology develops, the objective in preparing food also improving. The aims are not only to render food products safe to eat and present them in a range of palatable forms but also include the prolongation of shelf-life, ensuring safety, increasing variety, improving nutritional value, and increasing convenience. Technology involving machinery equipment make all of the aims attainable. Back then, drying is used to inhibit the growth of pathogens by removing water content is carried out by fully depend on nature: sun and wind. By depending on nature, there will be some limitations on what variable a person can control; the drying process can only be done in the presence of sunlight, which can be affected by weather and season. On the other hand, drying with a machine which used in industry today is more precise by controlling the temperature and not nature dependent; it can perform shorter period of drying than the conventional

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