Food Preservation and Storage

Food Preservation Storage

Lesson 08: Preservation by Use of HeatPreservation by Use of Heat

Introduction

Heat application is one of the most important methods of food preservation and it finds very wide applications amongst various other means of preserving foods. Heat treatment kills both pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms or suppresses their growth and inactivates enzymes. Heat can be applied in different forms such as blanching, pasteurization, sterilization and canning.