First of all, what is Food Processing? Turning fresh food into Food products is Food Processing. Now, there are many combinations of processes to which this food undergoes. Food undergoes process like Washing, Purification, Chopping, Freezing, Souring, Cooking, etc. This helps to improve the convenience, availability, Food Safety, etc. On the other hand, there are some disadvantages too like it remove the nutrients, fiber present in the food. So, let’s see what Food Processing Machinery and why is it so important.
What is Food Processing Machinery?
So, above you see the idea behind Food Processing and what are the processes the food goes through. But all of that is not possible by man power, we need to use machines to do this. Generally, the equipment that are used in Food Processing is what we called machines. So, what exactly this machine is do that it rinses, chop and harvest to make it attractive to customer and marketable food products. There’s a wide variety of machines and equipment used in this industry. Over the few years, Food Engineer department have become so important.
Every Food Processing industry has evolved and become complex. But innovation is needed to satisfy the consumer demands because what consumer sees in food products is its value, genuineness and safety. The machines aimed towards consumability, conservation, and also perform important function such as construction, handling and packaging.
Processes involving in Preparation
1. Proper Washing
First of all, it properly cleans. Now cleaning is done in two ways, both wet and dry to remove dirt from the surface of the food.
2. Assessment
Next is assessment of the food to obtain its overall quality. This is done by the trained operators.
3. Removing Skin
For improving more quality, it undergoes in process of removing the outer surface or non-needed substance from the food.
4. Classifying
It is basically to separates the foreign substance from the raw food.
Automatic Processing
After preparation equipment, the next step is Automatic processing or Mechanical Processing. This also includes numerous amounts of process.
1. Cutting the Proportion
The first process is to reduce the size of food substance through force or compression like Grinding and Cutting.
2. Increase the size
This method used to increase the standard size of food matter. The equipment that are involved in this process are Extrusion, Agglomeration or Rotating Pans and Forming for molding.
3. Unifying
In this process the particle size decreases and the consistency of liquid substance increases. The equipment that are used in Unifying are Mixers, Mills, etc.
4. Blending
In this method, they have to maintain a constant mixture. By mixing and dispersing more than two components into one another.
As the consumer demand increases the food processing industry will exponentially rise and evolve and only improve in the future.
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