The Pros And Cons Of Food Processing

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Living a nutritious diet comprised of consuming a proper meal that has been made preferably from raw meals. In actual fact, getting fresh local dishes can be hard due many factors in the way that there are only limited choices indulge by the provider or living in a distant place from the sources that can provide these fresh raw foods. These remotely factors lead consumers to purchase foods that can be stocked up inside the cupboards or would take lesser time in preparing the meals which is in the form of processed food. Processed foods are the type of food that during production has been amended and freezing, canning, baking or even drying are the ways food are processed. With this, processed foods are convenient due to its easy handling and less time consuming in preparations. …show more content…

As there has been found several fish bones around the Mediterranean coast of Israel, it may have shown that the fish may have been processed by humans. This has led to the beliefs of that humans have been processing food since Neolithic times. (Zohar, Dayan, Galili, & Spanier, 2001) The term fish processing signify to the actions that involved the time the raw fish are caught and garner into the final fish products before it is delivered to the customer. Fishes are the type of food that easily deteriorating when it is not stored in a proper condition and this is the main concern of fish processing. Along with this, most large seafood industries manage their own farming organization with aim to produce fresh, frozen, smoked or even canned before selling to local or international markets. (Boziaris, 2014) In the U.S., the packed for fish or shellfish products that have been canned differ each year between 500 million to a billion pound with tuna, salmon and clam as the major products. (Sea Grant,