Manufacture of Food & Beverages (2nd Edn.)

Download or read book Manufacture of Food & Beverages (2nd Edn.) written by NPCS board and published by NIIR PROJECT CONSULTANCY SERVICES. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (LIMITED EDITION- ONLY PHOTOSTAT COPY AVAILABLE) The Food and Beverages Industry is one of the leading industrial and business segments across the world, extending over a vast chain of production, distribution and retail lines. It is the mainstay of the much of the industrial and economic activities going around the world. The food and beverage industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the scope of the modern food industry. The food processing is one of the most under development almost exploited segment of agriculture industry. Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or to transform food into other forms for consumption by humans or animals either in the home or by the food processing industry. Baking is the traditional technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by convention. Bakery product, bread products, biscuit products, and other products are a major growth area. Food preservation is one of the major parts of food processing. There are various methods of food processing such as refrigeration & freezing, curing, canning, smoking, dehydration, etc.Manufacture of food and beverages covers ten food & beverages projects such as Beer, Biscuit, Bread, Chocolate drinks, Corn flakes, Date syrup and date drink, health drink, Indian mad foreign liquor, Litchi juice, Packaging drinking water, Soft drink, Sugarcane juice in tetra pack, Tomato concentrate etc.Prospective business men, industrialists, entrepreneurs, food technologists will find valuable material and wider knowledge of these selected food and beverages industry in this book. Comprehensive in scope, the book provides solutions that are directly applicable to food processing technology.