Directions: Answer the following questions. Write your answer on the space provided
1. What is food preservation?
2. What are the different ways of preserving food? How are they done?
3. What are the benefits derived from food preservation?
4. How do you preserve fruits, fish, eggs, vegetables, and meat?
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1.Food preservation includes food processing practices which prevent the growth of microorganisms, such as yeasts, and slow the oxidation of fats that cause rancidity
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3.All these benefits allow us to keep food safe and nutritious for far longer. This leads us into an often-overlooked benefit of food preservatives; they reduce food waste.
4.canning is a popular way of preserving fruits,vegetables and meats. Both cans and glass jars are suitable for canning the important thing will be to sterilise your equipment in simmering Water for a few minutes (this included lids). then they will be ready to be filled with things like jam.