Food is any substance that can be consumed, including liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and is usually of animal or plant origin. The study of food is called food science. In English, the term food is often used metaphorically or figuratively, as in food for thought. Food - Legal definition. Western food law defines four categories of object as food: any substance or product, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, ...

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• Food - Historical development
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• Food - From plants
• Food - From animals
• Food - From neither animals or plants
• Food - Food preparation
• Food - Food manufacture
• Food - Food trade
• Food - Food retailing
• Food - Food sufficiency
• Food - Food safety
• Food - Dietary habits
• Food - Nutrients in food

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While some food can be eaten without preparation, many foods undergo some form of preparation for reasons of safety, palatability, or flavor. At the simplest level this may involve washing, cutting, trimming or adding other foods or ingredients, such as spices. It may also involve mixing, heating or cooling, pressure cooking, fermentation, or combination with other food. Most food preparation takes place in a kitchen. The preparation of animal-based food will usually involve slaughter, evisceration, hanging, portioning and rendering.< ...

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The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course, it is necessary to take some kind of food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right kind of life.

Shunryu Suzuki

In the 'modern' era, eating has become a sensual activity. We eat more for pleasure than to keep our body temples healthy. Living to eat rather than eating to live has become the norm. Judicious use of colours, fragrances, and aromatic ingredients in food has only encouraged restless minds to move even further away from the truth inherent in creation.

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Convenience foods or tertiary processed foods are foods which are designed to save consumers time in the kitchen, reduce costs due to spoilage, and reduce costs using economies of scale. These foods require minimum preparation, typically just heating, and are packaged for a long shelf life with little loss of flavor and nutrients over time. They were developed specifically to preserve the oversupply of agricultural products available at the time of harvest in orde ...

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Crowley Foods, LLC is a food company based in Binghamton, New York and wholey owned by the HP Hood Company. Crowley is primarily a dairy food manufacturer, but also sells refrigerated beverages and frozen desserts. It's primary markets are on the East Coast but products are still available as far west as the Mississippi River. It is particularly large in it's corporate headquarters of Binghamton, where it is one of the few companies based there that still remain, aside from b ...

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Food preservation is the process of treating and handling food in such a way as to stop or greatly slow down spoilage to prevent foodborne illness while maintaining nutritional value, texture and flavor. Food preservation - Preservation Processes. Preservation usually involves preventing the growth of bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms, as well as retarding the oxidation of fats which causes rancidity. It also includes processes to inhibit natural aging and discolouration that can occur during food p ...

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• Food preservation - Sugar
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• Food preservation - Canning and Bottling
• Food preservation - Jellying
• Food preservation - Irradiation
• Food preservation - Modified atmosphere
• Food preservation - Clamps
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The croquette or croquet is a sausage-shaped parcel of food such as minced meat or vegetables, encased in breadcrumbs and deep fried. Croquet food - The Dutch kroket. The kroket is a deep fried snack, popular in the Netherlands. It is crunchy on the outside, but very soft and smooth on the inside. Each year 300 million croquettes are sold in the Netherlands (which works out to about 18 per person annualy), making it the second most-popular snack in the country. This number does n ...

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Baby food is any food that is made specifically for infants, roughly between the ages of six months to two years. The food comes in many varieties, with different manufacturers and tastes. A common trait of the many different baby foods is that they are designed for ease of eating; either a soft, liquidy paste or an easily chewed food. This is due to the fact that infants lack teeth and experience in eating. Note that many commercial baby foods, particularly mea ...

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The World Food Programme (WFP) is an agency of the United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters. Its headquarters is in Rome, Italy. Development projects now constitute less than 20% of WFP programmes, as emergency and protracted refugee situations result in increasing demands for WFP programmes and resources. The WFP ...

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Main article: Food processing Food processing is the methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for human consumption. Food processing takes clean, havested or slaughtered and butchered components and uses them to produce marketable food products. ...

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A food chain describes a single pathway that energy and nutrients may follow in an ecosystem. There is one organism per trophic level, and trophic levels are therefore easily defined. They usually start with a primary producer and end with a top predator. Here is an example of a food chain: phytoplankton → copepod → fish → squid → seal → Orca This "chain" can be described as follows: Killer whales (Orca) feed upon seals, that feed upon squid, that eat small fish, ...

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Benefits of food processing includes toxin removal, preservation, improving flavor, marketing, distribution, and increasing food consistency. Proponents of the raw food diet advocate consumption of foods prepared with very little food processing. ...

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Fast-food outlets are take-away or take-out providers, often with a "drive-thru" service which allows customers to order and pick up food from their cars; but most also have a seating area in which customers can eat the food on the premises. Finger food comprises most fast food, and can be eaten without cutlery. Fast foods include fish and chips, sandwiches, pitas, hamburgers, fried chicken, french fries, chicken nuggets, tacos, pizza or ice cream, although many fast-food restaurants offer "slower" foods like chil ...

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Food storage - Storage facilities. Almost all food storage requires cool and dry conditions. In many countries this is provided by a refrigerator or larder. Root cellars and spring houses are also effective in temperate climates where the average ground temperature several feet below the surface is less than 15°C (60°F). A traditional root cellar is a masonry (usually concrete) storage area (often in a basement) with roof and house-side wall, if any, insulated, and outside walls insulated to the depth at ...

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Many popular brands of cat food are made from what would otherwise be waste products of the meat industry. Some cat experts claim that this practice, as well as the overly processed nature of dry cat food, is responsible for many of the age-related ailments of cats. Additionally, many major brand-name cat foods are primarily grain-based, often containing large amounts of corn or rice supplemented with meats and essential vitamins, and usually saturated with 'digest,' a euphemistic term for real or synthetic cat vomit, to attract the cat as cats are prone ...

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Food industry is not a formally defined term, however, it is usually used in a broadly inclusive way to cover all aspects of food production and sale. The Food Standards Agency, a government body in the UK, describes it thus: "...the whole food industry – from farming and food production, packaging and distribution, to retail and catering."[1] The Economic Research Service of the USDA uses the term food system to describe the same thing: "The U.S. food system is a complex network of far ...

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Food science - Acidity pH. Nearly all fruits and vegetables are acidic (have a pH less than 7). For example, an apple has a pH of around 3.3 to 4.0, depending on variety and growing conditions. Leafy green vegetables have a pH of 5.5 to 6.8. Acidity helps to protect the food from bacteria, most of which require a neutral pH, especially the pathogenic ones. However, acidity does not stop fungi like yeast, which is why fruit will ferment naturally. Most meat, dairy, and soy products have a neutral pH. Tofu has a pH of about 7.2. Milk has a pH on the acidic side of neutral, 6.4 t ...

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Grain and beans are stored in tall grain elevators, almost always at a rail head near the point of production. The grain is shipped to a final user in hopper cars. In the former Soviet Union, where harvest was poorly controlled, grain was often irradiated at the point of production to suppress mold and insects. In the U.S., threshing and drying is performed in the field, and transport is nearly sterile and in large containers that effectively suppress pest access, so irradiation is not required. At any given time ...

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Essentially, the food industry involves the commercial movement of food from field to fork. The modern food industry is the result of technological and cultural changes that have occurred over the last 150 years. Traditionally, over thousands of years, food production was centered around two activities: Labor-intensive agricultural activities, the farming of grain, produce and livestock; Personal food preparation, where individuals and families acquire raw and minimally processed ingredients, and prepare them for ...

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