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food processing
- Subject Category
- Q Food and Human Nutrition
- X Research, Technology and Engineering
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2132.rdf
- Scope Note
- The treatments used to manufacture food products for retail markets; For the preparation of foods for meals USE food preparation; For production of food at the local, regional, or national level as an economic indicator USE food production; For the preparation of harvested or gathered commodities, such as food crops, feed crops or wood, for fresh market or processing USE postharvest treatment.
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2132
- Used For
- milk processing
- Broader Term
- food technology
- Narrower Term
- accelerated ripening
- breadmaking
- brewing
- cakemaking
- cheesemaking
- conching
- cook-chill systems
- cook-freeze systems
- cook-vide
- cooking
- curing (food products)
- debranning
- decaffeination
- defeathering
- degreening
- dextrinization
- fish processing
- food enrichment
- food fortification
- food handling
- malting
- marinating
- meat processing
- nixtamalization
- pickling
- popping
- precooking
- renneting
- reworks
- salting
- scalding
- shelling
- smoking (food products)
- sous vide
- tenderizing
- winemaking
- Related Term
- coagulation
- creaming
- farm to fork
- fermentation
- filling (processing)
- food additives
- food industry
- food nutrient losses
- food packaging
- food preparation
- food preservation
- food processing equipment
- food processing plants
- food processing quality
- food processing wastes
- food production
- food sanitation
- food spoilage
- foods
- intermediate moisture foods
- kneading
- noodle industry
- postharvest treatment
- processed foods
- processing technology
- restructured foods
- restructured meat
- Spanish
- procesamiento de alimentos
- Term Number
- 2132