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Hello friends,
Welcome to my blog! Let's talk about food preservation...
What do you understand by food preservation? |
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Food Preservation is the process of keeping food in such a way as to stop or slow down spoilage, food poisoning and contamination in food.
It can also be a process of saving food to last a longer time and also to keep it from decaying. Food preservation started a very long time with different methods.
I have seen my mom preserve meat in such a way that it last for a very long time. Food preservation is a process of storing food to save up time and energy. Since I started the different methods of food preservations, I stay free from cooking all the time, my food lasts longer than expected, it saves my time and energy.
Explain 5 ways of preserving food |
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Among the oldest methods of preservation are drying, refrigeration, and fermentation. Modern methods include canning, pasteurization, freezing, irradiation, and the addition of chemicals.source
• Drying: Even though this is an old method of preserving food, people still use it in our modern world. This process is usually used for meat preservation, it can be done using firewood or an oven.
• Canning: This is another type of preservation that is commonly used by most business people wll over the world. For example, sardines are canned for preservation, although it has expired date. Canning is a way of preserving our food but it must have a time duration.
• Freezing: This method is very common in all homes. Everyone uses this preservative method because it's safe. This is a process of putting some portions of food in a bowl and putting it into the freezer to stay as long as possible.
• Chemicals: This is a process of preserving food with some chemicals that would keep it safe from bacterias. I hardly see or use this method but for some reasons, it is good.
• Smoking: This preservative method is used mostly in the rural areas to keep food preserves. We used it in my home town to preserve some food but it is not so healthy.
Let us know the best way of preserving perishable foods |
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Refrigeration is one of the most effective ways to extend the life span of perishable items. The cold temperature slows the growth of bacteria and so storing perishables in a cold temperature room would keep them fpr a long time
To store vegetables, it's best to wrap it up with a paper and put into the fridge but not for a very long time. The cold temperature helps it relaxes.
For fruits, it can be best kept in the fridge temperature to stay a longer time.
People say eating freshly cooked food is better than eating preserved food. What's your opinion on this? |
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This is very true, eating freshly cooked food is more healthy, but what can we do? We can't keep cooking fresh food everyday looking at the economy.
When you buy an amount of food stuffs that would last for one month, and unfortunately it didn't last up to 2 weeks because you cook fresh food, what's your Faith in getting another food stuffs?
Saving is applicable in everything and not just in money, although we use money to buy the food. Preserving food helps us save up. I use this method so well because I can't afford to spend more money every week.
I usually cook my meals during weekends and store them up in the freezer for as long as one month. The economy of things does need everyone to save up. These days eating preserved food is even better.
Thank you friends!
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