Monster Essays - Food Processing
Food Processing
Throughout the history of mankind science has searched into the realms
of the unknown. Along with it bringing new discoveries, allowing for our lives
to become healthier, more efficient, safer, and at the same time, possibly more
dangerous. Among the forces driving scientists into these many experiments, is
the desire to preserve the one fuel that keeps our lives going; FOOD.
As early as the beginning of the 19th century, major breakthroughs in
food preservation had begun. Soldiers and seamen, fighting in Napoleons army
were living off of salt-preserved meats. These poorly cured foods provided
minimal nutritional value, and frequent outbreaks of scurvy w....
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