Food industry
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The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manu
Packaged food aisles at a grocery store in the United States
Parmigiano Reggiano cheese produced in a modern factory
Battery cages in Brazil, an example of intensive animal farming
A soybean field in Argentina
Food processing
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Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour to home cooking
Food industry
…Manufacturing: agrichemicals, agricultural construction, farm machinery and supplies, seed, etc. Food processing: preparation of fresh products for market, and manufacture of prepared food products Marketing: promotion of generic products (e.g., milk board), new…
Industrial cheese production
Whole, dried bananas in Thailand, an example of primary food processing
Baking bread is an example of secondary food processing.
Figure 1. Expected relative food processing extent resulting from physical and (bio)chemical changes during processing at different food processing levels (FPL).