Food and Food Processing

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Blue Team

• Food and Food Processing
• Robin Walker
• Melissa Vargas
• David Quan
• Arin Morad
• April Perez

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Food

• Food-What is Fed upon, that which goes to
  support life by being received within, and
  assimilated by the organism of an animal or a
  planteaten for nourishment (brainydictionary.co
  m)
• April

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Food Processing

• Definition- the methods and techniques used to
  transform raw ingredients into food for
  consumption by humans (freedictionary.com)

April
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Examples

• Removal of toxins
• Milling
• Fermentation
• Controlled storage
• Packaging
• Blanching
• Cooking
• Freezing April

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Detoxification

• Process of making food safe to eat
• Many of our earlier foods required that the
  toxins or poisons be removed before eating
• Womens involvement lead to inventions like the
  stone pestle, graters, sieves, strainers, and
  mallets
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  Arin

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Detoxification continued

• Main crops that women began to detoxify
• Olives, Taro, and Sago
• Mary Engle Pennington- research led to standards
  and practices for milk safety
• -She headed the U.S department of Agriculture
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  Arin

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Milling

• Women as Millers
• -!Kung and Egyptians used donkey jawbones for
  harvesting
• -Nutufians used querns (grain mills) to grind
  wild grains into meal
• Inventors
• -Sybylla Masters-Food Mill (1715)
• -Madeline
  Turner-Juice Extraction (1916)
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  Robin

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Fermentation

• Yogurt-made in the Balkin Islands thousands of
  years ago
• Egypt and Babylon-Beer made and sold by women
• Asia-Women made brandy (burnt wine)
• -Not picked up in Europe until much later
• Because women did so much with food its natural
  they were the inventors of alcohol
• Today many tribes still have women as brew
  masters for both ceremonial and every day
  consumption
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  Robin

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Storage Packaging

• Storage -to stack or supply for future use
• Package -manner in which something, such as a
  product is presented to the public
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  David

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Importance of storing Foods

• Foods are kept fresh
• Foods will last longer
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  David

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Types of Storage

• Refrigerator Storage
• Freezer Storage
• 6 Shelf Restaurant Refrigerator/Freezer
• In other words if you got one you must be rich
• top shelf-cooked or prepared food
• 2nd shelf-uncooked seafood
• 3rd shelf-uncooked non ground beef
• 4th shelf-uncooked pork
• 5th shelf-uncooked ground beef
• bottom shelf-uncooked chicken
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  David

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Functions of Packaging

• Contain
• Protect
• Inform
• Facilitate the use of product
• -Laura Scudder
• Potato chip bags
• Made of wax
• sealed by iron by
  factory workers
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  David

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Cooking

• Melissa

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Cooking

• Cooking is the act of preparing food for
  consumption using heat or fire. It encompasses a
  vast range of methods, tools, and combinations of
  ingredients to improve the flavor and/or
  digestibility of food
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  Melissa

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Cooking

• Makes food easier to digest and remove toxic
  elements.
• cooking can be a great art.
• Mmmmm!!!
  Melissa

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Types pf Cooking

• Barbecue
• Baking
• Roasting
• Deep frying
• Rotisserie
• Microwave

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Cooking InventionsThe stove

• Elizabeth hawk invented the stove in 1867
• Ruth Wakefield invented Toll House Cookies
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  Melissa

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What is Blanching?

• Blanching is a cooking term that describes a
  process of food preparation
• Food substance is rapidly plunged into boiling
  water and then removed after a brief, timed
  interval then plunged into ice water or placed
  under cold running water
• Blanching rapidly heats and then cools the food
• -This allows the food, usually fruits and
  vegetables, to
• come out and makes the foods natural
  flavor more
• pronounced, and is often a preparative
  technique for
• freezing food
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  Melissa

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4 Types of Blanching

• Water Blanching
• Steam Blanching
• Microwave Blanching
• Cooling
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  Melissa

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Freezing

• Freezing-Preserves food for longer periods of
  time
• extreme cold slows the growth of
• microorganisms and the chemical
• changes that affect quality or cause
• spoilage

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• Before 1748 people cooled their food in ice and
  snow
• Inventors
• -Clarence Birdseye-observed people storing
  fish and meat in barrels of frozen seawater that
  quickly froze in the Arctic
• Conclusion food could be frozen and thawed to be
  cooked months later
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• Birdseye invention bought in 1929 by General
  Foods Corp. for 22 million
• 1930-first quick frozen vegetables, fruit, and
  seafood were sold to the public
• Mary Engle Pennington- helped to create laws
  regarding foods and drugs
• Designed household and industrial
  refrigerators
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  April

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• Rose Totino- Invented Frozen Pizza
• Frozen pizza dough patented in 1981
• sold to Pillsbury for 20 million
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  April

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Women Inventors
Food Process Technology
Detoxification
Milling Food Mill Extraction Sybylla Masters Madeline Turner
Fermentation
Storage and Packaging Potato Chip Bags Laura Scudder
Cooking Stove Toll House Cookies Elizabeth Hawk Ruth Wakefield
Freezing Frozen Pizza Rose Totino
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