FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Secondary food processing is the everyday process of creating food from ingredients that are ready to use. Baking bread, regardless of whether it is made at home, in a small bakery, or in a large factory, is an example of secondary food processing.

Detailed explanation-2: -All items were classified into one of four groups: 1-non-processed or unprocessed or minimally processed food; 2-basic or primary processed food; 3-moderately processed food; 4-highly or ultra-processed food (including the group “prepared food and meals” that was separate in the case of IFIC classification).

Detailed explanation-3: -Convenience food, also called tertiary processed food, is food that is commercially prepared (often through processing) to optimise ease of consumption. Such food is usually ready to eat without further preparation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. The primary processing includes basic cleaning, grading and packaging as in case of fruits and vegetables. Secondary processing includes alteration of the basic product to a stage just before the final preparation as in case of milling of paddy to rice.