Food preservation involves preventing the growth of bacteria and fungi to slow or stop food spoilage. Traditional methods include drying, cooling, freezing, boiling, heating, salting, sugaring, smoking, pickling, lye, canning, jellying, and jugging. Modern industrial methods include pasteurization, vacuum packing, food additives, irradiation, pulsed electric field electroporation, modified atmosphere, nonthermal plasma, high-pressure food preservation, biopreservation, and hurdle technology. Drying, sugaring, salting, pickling and freezing are some common food preservation methods. Drying removes moisture from food to prevent microbial growth while sugaring and salting create hostile environments for microbes.

1. PRAYAGRAJ
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
[B.Sc. (Hons.) Ag.]
(Fifth Semester)
Prepared by :
Adarsh Tripathi,
Agriculture student,
united university
Topic: Food Preservation

3. MEANING
• Food Preservation is the process of treating
and handling food to stop or slow down food
spoilage, loss of quality, edibility, or
nutritional value and thus allow for longer
food storage.
• Preservation usually involves preventing the
growth of bacteria, fungi
• This means that the food treated that way
will go bad (spoil from bacteria) later that if it
had not been treated that way. For
thousands of years, humans have used
methods of preserving food, so that they can
store food to eat later.
 Food Preservation

5.  METHODS OF FOOD PRESERVATION
TRADITIONAL METHODS
• Drying
• Cooling
• Freezing
• Boiling
• Heating
• Salting
• Sugaring
• Smoking
• Pickling
• Lye
• Canning
• Jellying
• Jugging

6.  INDUSTRIAL MODERN METHODS
• Pasteurization
• Vacuum packing
• Artificial food additives
• Irradiation
• Pulsed electric field electroporation
• Modified atmosphere
• Nonthermal plasma
• High-pressure food preservation
• Biopreservation
• Hurdle technology

7.  DRYING
• Drying (dehydrating) of food is one of the
oldest and easiest methods of food
preservation. Dehydration is the process of
removing water or moisture from a food
product.
• Dehydrated foods are ideal for backpacking,
hiking, and camping because they weigh
much less than their non-dried counterparts
and do not require refrigeration. Drying food
is also a way of preserving seasonal foods for
later use.

8.  How dehydration preserves foods
Foods can be spoiled by food microorganisms or
through enzymatic reactions within the food.
Bacteria, yeast, and molds must have a sufficient
amount of moisture around them to grow and
cause spoilage. Reducing the moisture content of
food prevents the growth of these spoilage-
causing microorganisms and slows down
enzymatic reactions that take place within food.
The combination of these events helps to prevent
spoilage in dried food.

9. Reasons Why Dehydration is a Great Method of Food
Preservation
• Does Not Require Electricity.
• Is Less Time Consuming.
• Makes Winter Meals Easier.
• Requires Less Storage Space.
• Is Child Friendly.

10.  SUGARING & SALTING
• Sugaring is the process of desiccating a food
by first dehydrating it, then packing it with
pure sugar. This sugar can be crystalline in
the form of table or raw sugar, or it can be a
high sugar density liquid such as honey, syrup
or molasses.
• The purpose of sugaring is to create an
environment hostile to microbial life and
prevent food spoilage.
• Sugaring is commonly used to preserve fruits
as well as vegetables such as ginger. From
time to time sugaring has also been used for
non- food preservations.

11. • Salting is the preservation of food with dry
edible salt.It is related to pickling(preparing
food with brine, that is, salty water) and is
one form of curing. It is one of the oldest
methods of preserving food
• Salting is used because most bacteria, fungi
and other potentially pathogenic organisms
cannot survive in a highly salty environment,
due to the hypertonic nature of salt.
• Any living cell in such an environment will
become dehydrated through osmosis and
die or become temporarily inactivated.

12. PICKLING
• Pickling is the process of soaking food in a
solution containing salt, acid, or alcohol.
• It can be used with most foods
• Most methods require no special equipment.
• However, pickled foods can be unsafe if
prepared carelessly or stored at room
temperature.
• Pickling is often combined with another method,
such as fermenting, canning, or just refrigerating

13.  FREEZING
• Freezing is the process of chilling foods to at
least o°F.
• It can be used with all foods
• True freezing is not possible in the freezer
compartment of your refrigerator where the
temperature is typically much warmer,
between 10°F to 32°F.
• Easy method

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