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Assessment 1 Read and analyse the questions before answering. Write your answers in the blanks
1. What is preservation?
2. When is the best time to preserve foods?
3. What foods are commonly preserved?
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7. Preserved foods that are
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9. What should you do before preserving foods?
Give ways in preserving foods
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Answer:

1. Food preservation can be defined as the process of tre ating and handling food in such a way as to stop or greatly slow down spoilage and prevent foodborne illness while maintaining nutritional value, texture and flavour.

2. When they are on season.

3-6. Fish, meat, poultry, and citrus fruit juices.

7-8. salt is often used in combination with another method, like dehydration or an acidic solution, to preserve food. Examples of salt-preserved foods include hard salamis, bacon, salt pork, smoked fish, anchovies, olives, pickles, and preserved lemons.

9-16. Among the oldest methods of preservation are drying, refrigeration, and fermentation. Modern methods include canning, pasteurization, freezing, irradiation, and the addition of chemicals. Advances in packaging materials have played an important role in modern food preservation.

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