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Exercise 3
Food and Food Processing


1. What is Food? See: Foods Grouped According to Biological Source

2. What is Food Processing?

Identify the forms of processing such as removal of toxins and fermentation, milling, controlled storage and packaging, blanching, cooking, freezing, etc.

Devise a three column chart (see sample below). Identify these processes, the technologies and the inventors of these technologies associated with inventions that have been meant to facilitate these means of processing food. Wherever possible, identify the processes and means invented by women.

INVENTOR
FOOD PROCESS TECHNOLOGY
PASTEURIZATION
MILLING Food Mill

Extraction 		Sybylla Masters
Madeline Turner
REMOVAL OF TOXINS
COOKING Toll House Cookies Ruth Wakefield
FREEZING Frozen Pizza Rose Totino
Other Methods See: Foods Invented by Accident