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  2. Food processing - Wikipedia

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    Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food. [2] These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as frozen meals and re-heated airline meals .

  3. Convenience food - Wikipedia

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    Convenience food (also called tertiary processed food) is food that is commercially prepared (often through processing) for ease of consumption, and is usually ready to eat without further preparation. It may also be easily portable, have a long shelf life, or offer a combination of such convenient traits. Convenience foods include ready-to-eat ...

  4. Biochemical engineering - Wikipedia

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    There are three levels of food processing: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary food processing involves turning agricultural products into other products that can be turned into food, secondary food processing is the making of food from readily available ingredients, and tertiary food processing is commercial production of ready-to eat or ...

  5. Food packaging - Wikipedia

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    Testing modified atmosphere in a plastic bag of carrots. Food packaging is a packaging system specifically designed for food and represents one of the most important aspects among the processes involved in the food industry, as it provides protection from chemical, biological and physical alterations. [1]

  6. Food industry - Wikipedia

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    The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labour-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes.

  7. Industry classification - Wikipedia

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    Industry classification or industry taxonomy is a type of economic taxonomy that classifies companies, organizations and traders into industrial groupings based on similar production processes, similar products, or similar behavior in financial markets. National and international statistical agencies use various industry-classification schemes ...

  8. Tertiary sector of the economy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The product lifecycle. The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the secondary sector (manufacturing). The tertiary sector consists of the provision ...

  9. Food technology - Wikipedia

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    Food technology. Food technology is a branch of food science that addresses the production, preservation, quality control and research and development of food products. It may also be understood as the science of ensuring that a society is food secure and has access to safe food that meets quality standards. [1]