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food technology
- Subject Category
- Q Food and Human Nutrition
- X Research, Technology and Engineering
- Definition
- The application of food science to the preservation, processing and preparation of foods, and to their packaging, storage and transportation.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/40859.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/40859
- Used For
- food engineering
- Broader Term
- food science
- technology
- Narrower Term
- food biotechnology
- food packaging
- food preparation
- food preservation
- food processing
- food storage
- Related Term
- culinary science
- cultured meat
- human nutrition
- novel foods
- postharvest treatment
- processing technology
- product development
- Spanish
- tecnología alimentaria
- Term Number
- 40859