You are now familiar with perish ability of food and importance of selection as well as storage of food to prevent its spoilage. Do you know how you can actually prevent food from getting spoilt? Yes, by preserving it. You must have seen it at your homes-potato wafers being dried, raw mango being cut and dried, tomato sauce, chutneys, dal wadi and papads being made. Preserved food not only adds variety to our meals but also helps in utilizing excess produce at harvest time. Let us learn more about food preservation in this lesson.


Food preservation is a form of processing of food to prevent it from spoilage and making it possible to store in a fit condition for future use.

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