Agricultural processing and food engineering deals with processing agricultural products for food or feed. It applies engineering principles to convert crops into food. Crops are either durable, with low moisture content like grains, or perishable, with high moisture content like fruits and vegetables. Primary processing operations like drying do not heavily change the physical characteristics of crops. Secondary processing operations like making banana catsup or mango puree change the physical properties of crops.
Agricultural processing and food engineering deals with processing agricultural products for food or feed. It applies engineering principles to convert crops into food. Crops are either durable, with low moisture content like grains, or perishable, with high moisture content like fruits and vegetables. Primary processing operations like drying do not heavily change the physical characteristics of crops. Secondary processing operations like making banana catsup or mango puree change the physical properties of crops.
Agricultural processing and food engineering deals with processing agricultural products for food or feed. It applies engineering principles to convert crops into food. Crops are either durable, with low moisture content like grains, or perishable, with high moisture content like fruits and vegetables. Primary processing operations like drying do not heavily change the physical characteristics of crops. Secondary processing operations like making banana catsup or mango puree change the physical properties of crops.
Agricultural processing and food engineering deals with processing agricultural products for food or feed. It applies engineering principles to convert crops into food. Crops are either durable, with low moisture content like grains, or perishable, with high moisture content like fruits and vegetables. Primary processing operations like drying do not heavily change the physical characteristics of crops. Secondary processing operations like making banana catsup or mango puree change the physical properties of crops.
➢ Agricultural Processing - A study that deals on the principles and practices
of processing agricultural products suitable for food or feed.
➢ Food Engineering – A study that deals with the application of engineering
principles of converting agricultural products into different kinds of food. ➢ Durable Crops – These are the crops that are produced and harvested with normally low moisture content of about 20 to 30% and are not easy to deteriorate or spoil. Cereal grains and legumes are the examples of these crops.
➢ Perishable Crops – These are the crops that have high moisture content (30% and above) such as fruits and vegetables including dairy, meat, and fish and easily to deteriorate and spoil. Category of Processing Operation
➢ Primary Processing – These are the processing operation which does not heavily change the physical characteristics of the product. Drying and dehydration of grains and fruits are examples of this operation.
➢ Secondary Processing – These are the processing operation which change the physical properties of the product. On-plant processing such as converting banana into to catsup or mango to puree are examples of this operation. References
BELONIO, A. T. Agricultural and Food Processing. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering
and Environmental Management, College of Agriculture, Central Philippine University, Iloilo City.
