FOOD PRESERVATION METHODS

1. How do physical methods preserve food?

They affect food by changing temperatures and wáter contend.

2. Which are the physical methods to preserve food?

 Air drying
 Sun drying

 Spray drying

 Freeze clying
 Microfiltration

 Pasteurisation

 Sterilising
3. Is microfiltration

2. Reading comprehension
 3. Vocabulary

CHEMICAL METHODS

According to the reading, answer:

1. Chemical Methods are a good alternative to preserve food at room temperature?

 Not as substitutes for a correct preservation of food at room temperature.

2. Name some natural and some artificial additives.

 Natural additives: sugar, salt, vinegar, alcohol

 Artificial additives: antioxidants, antimicrobial substance.

3. Are artificial additives dangerous in any case?

 Depends on the dose added to the product.

4. Can I marinate any product into milk? Why?

 No, you can not marinate in milk but in vinegar and lemon for your level of acidity.

5. Can I marinate in alcohol? Why?

 Yes, for its level of acidity.
1. Which are the preserving agents used in these methods?

 Smoking
 Fermentation
 Food additives

2. Which are the two consequences of smoking?

 The dehydratation caused by the heart and the chemical reaction to smoke.

3. Can smoking be added to any other methods? which ones?

 Yes, you can smoke foods that have been cured with salt and drying.

4. Is it true that we can obtain new productos through fermentation? How? Give examples

 Yes, for example, fermented, producing a chemical transformation of diferent raw

material to obtain new products milk results in Yogurt or Kumis, Arequipe, Cheese.

5. What`s the function of the food additives.

 They serve to preserve food, for their antioxidants and antimicrobial substance.

6. What`s the meaning of the letter E?

 The meaning of the letter E is to indicate that the chemical additives are
authorized by the European Union.