Food Processing

Food Technology | Food Processing | Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw materials for food or to transform food into other forms of consumption by humans or animals, either at home or in the food industry. Food is usually clean, harvested or slaughtered and animal products used to produce commercial appeal and often long-lasting food. Similar methods are used to produce animal feed.

The easiest way to make Coconut Milk

Food Processing | The easiest way to make coconut milk | Coconut milk, derived from coconut meat, makes an excellent substitute for cow's milk. An essential ingredient in many Indian and Thai dishes, coconut milk has risen in popularity and usage in the U.S. As of 2011, the increased demand for coconut milk and a devastating harvest has made coconut milk an expensive and rare find in some Western countries. Fortunately, coconut milk is very easy to make at home. The first thing you have to do to make coconut milk is preparing all things you need : 1 cup dried coconut meat (unsweetened), 2 cups hot water, blender, strainer and bowl.

How to Make a Spreadable Margarine-like Butter

Do you love the taste of real butter? It is so delicious! And it's not completely wrong ingredients, such as margarine. Only problem is when you wanna spreading the butter on the bread. It is too hard. You can buy the spreadable butter now a days, but it is expensive. You can save money by making your own spreadable margarine-like butter now!

7 Steps to Make Homemade Margarine

Margarine is originally made of cream and ox fat churned. The first margarine has produced since 1870. Margarine is easy to apply and can be used in many recipes. To make homemade margarine is a very easy, cheap and convenient alternative to store-bought variety.

Things to Prepare:

• 1 / 2 cup raw milk or soy milk
• 1 cup oil

8 Steps to Make Easy Homemade Butter

The butter is a product derived from milk that not too difficult to manufacture, especially with using of  the latest foods processing equipments. The butter produced from milk which comes from cows that fed with grass has much nutrition and very healthful and is regarded as a super-food by followers of native diet.

It is important to ensure that the raw milk is from excellent source to which instructions are adhered to and the whole operation is clean, because there is no heat treatment to produce butter.

5 Steps to Make Easy Homemade Strawberry Jam

The difficult thing in making strawberry jam is to strip off all strawberries. But it's worth the time! Unlike jams bought from store, homemade strawberry jam recipes have no preservatives and can be sweetened to taste, so makes the recipes both delicious and nutritious. This strawberry jam recipes yields eight (8 ounces) half pints.

How to Turn Corn Tortilla into Homemade Tortilla Chips

Restaurant and store-bought tortilla chips can not compare to fresh and more crunchy homemade tortilla chips. Tortilla chips are fast and easy to produce and you can use them in any recipe calls for tortilla chips. Fry or bake up some and enjoy it plain, with salsa and dips, or in a batch of nachos.

What you need:

• 1 quart. oil for frying
• 1 (12 ounce) package corn tortillas

About Yoghurt and How to Make It

Yoghurt is a milk product processed through the addition of a good interaction of organisms, one of which is lactic acid bacteria. Yoghurt in the market is divided into two types, the first is plain yoghurt which is no flavor  addition and drink yoghurt, which is plain yoghurt that have added fruit essence, such as flavor of strawberry, orange, grapefruit, lemon, etc.

Investment Environment of the Agro-Industry Sector in Kazakhstan

In 2003, Kazakhstan newly enacted the Act for New Foreign Investment after abolition of the Act for Foreign Investment and the Law on State Support for Direct Investment. Under the new law, there is no discrimination between domestic and foreign investors. Investment favors are provided in priority sectors, which include following sectors: industrial infrastructure, processing industry, agriculture, agro-industry, housing, the social sector and tourism infrastructure. The incentives for direct investments in the priority sectors are: property tax and income tax exemptions for up to five years respectively, and exemptions or reductions in customs duty on materials necessary for completion of the investment project.

Review of Agriculture and Agro-Industry Sector in Kazakhstan

Although the share of agriculture (and agro-industry) out of GDP is only 8 percent, agriculture (and agro-industry) is a very important sector in Kazakhstan, since over 40 percent of population still resides in rural areas and 20 percent of labor is employed by the agricultural sector.

How to Turn Soy Milk and Tofu into Ice Cream

Intolerant to lactose is a problem. And many people suffer from this love ice cream. Of course they may not eat ice cream because of milk is in it. Processing soy milk and tofu into ice cream is a solving for this problem. It is not too difficult to turn soy milk and tofu into ice cream. It is a dairy free ice cream. No refined white sugar and it is a healthy food because it's all natural. But don't worry, it tastes as delicious as ice cream you usually buy in the ice cream outlet.

What is Agro-industry?

Agroindustry or agro-industry (agroindustrial or agro-industrial) is industry dealing with the supply, processing, and distribution of farm products. Agro-industry is related to the large-scale production, processing, and packaging of food using modern equipment and methods.

An 'agro-industry' means a unit which adds value to agricultural produce / intermediates / residues; both food and non-food; by processing them into products which are marketable or usable or edible, or by improving storability, or by providing a link from farm to the market or a part thereof. Agro-industry also includes hitech agriculture, biotechnology based agriculture and the certified/ truthful label seed producing industry.

What is Agribusiness?

Agribusiness is the human activities that use natural resources to fullfill their needs of their life. Agribusiness is a broad concept used to describe corporate agricultural enterprises individually and collectively. Agribusinesses are companies involved in one or more stages of the production of crops and livestock. In other words agribusiness is an economic perspective for agricultural activities.

The Background of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Implementation

In the 1960´s, the Pillsbury Company in cooperation with the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) first constructed HACCP to describe the systematic approach to food safety. The goal of the programme was to come as close to 100% assurance as possible that the food produced for space use would not be contaminated with bacterial or viral pathogens, toxins, chemicals or physical hazards that could cause an illness or injury (Pierson and Corlett, 1992).

How to Make Home Made Potato Chips

Diversification of foods is very important in an attempt to overcome the problem of dependence on one kind of staple foods. Such as by processing cereals and root crops into various preserved products which have a distinctive flavor and having long shelf life. These processed products such as: flour, dried cassava, tapai (fermented cassava), chips and others.

How to Make Cassava Flour

Cassava flour is made from cassava pieces that have been dried, then crushed. For producing good cassava flour, cassava that used must be good and old enough. Cassava that harvested after 6 months cultivation have still very high water so that the flour substance is only a little. Cassava flour is commonly used as ingredient to make many kind of foods.

How to Make Soy Sauce

Soy sauce (ketchup) is a liquid food seasoning, has a blackish brown color, distinctive flavor and aroma. Below I will explain how to make the soy sauce. Firstly you have to prepare the raw materials and equipments that needed, and the production process is following.

A Soy Tofu Making Guide

The principle of making soy tofu is to dissolve protein contained in soybean using water as solvent. Once the protein has dissolved, precipitate it by adding precipitating substance to yield clumps of protein that will be formed soy tofu.

Soybean Processing as Raw Materials for Food Products

Nuts and seeds such as soybean, peanut, winged bean seeds, koro, and coconut are very important in our life as food source of vegetable protein and fats. Amino acid contained in its protein is not complete as animal protein. The addition of other ingredients such as sesame, corn or groats are very good for maintaining the balance of amino acids.

Guidance for Preparing and Packing Vegetables Products

Foods can be canned raw or boiled for a period of time. Raw packing is filling the jars tightly with unheated fruit or vegetables. Raw Packed foods must be processed with a pressure canner. Hot Packing means the food you put in the jars is hot or boiling. Foods usually keep longer by hot packing.