Terms Related to Food Processing

• Food Packaging

  Containers, packaging, and packaging materials for processed and raw foods and beverages. It includes packaging intended to be used for storage and also used for …

• Food Adulteration

  The presence in food of harmful, unpalatable, or otherwise objectionable foreign substances, e.g. chemicals, microorganisms or diluents, before, during, or after processing or storage.

• Food-Processing Industry

  The productive enterprises concerned with food processing.

• Fortified Food

  Any food that has been supplemented with essential nutrients either in quantities that are greater than those present normally, or which are not present in …