英文版食品加工发展简史

Food Processing History：Use of Fire、Use of pottery、Canned Food、Ready Meal.

Food Processing History

• Use of Fire
  • After many attempts and failures, the primitive people learned to use natural tinder and embarked on the road of cooked food. The history of food processing began with some preservation and cooking techniques that are still in use today, albeit on a larger scale and with greater efficiency. From prehistoric societies to some of the earliest ancient empires such as ancient Greece, India, China and Peru, all the way to the Middle Ages, these techniques were developed, perfected and spread to many different cuisines around the world.
• Use of pottery
  • Ten thousand years ago, humans learned to make pottery, which means the beginning of "cooking".
• Canned Food
  • Around 1780, Napoleon's army often affected the outcome of the war due to moldy food and other reasons during the march. Nicolae Appel developed a new food preservation method - canned cooked food. Appel's 1804 Glass bottle cans came out, which is also the prototype of modern cans. In 1862, Pasteur put forward the "Pasteur sterilization method" after research, which represented that the food processing industry had entered the scientific era.
• Ready Meal
  • Throughout the 1900s, a number of rapid, important developments led to food processing as we know it today. Just as World War I popularized the tin can at the turn of the century, World War II and the mid-century space race helped accelerate the development of ready-to-eat packaged foods. During this period, the working middle class also began to expand around the world, bringing with it an increased demand for fast food with a long shelf life. New processes as well as new raw materials and new equipment have contributed to the history of food processing in the 20th century. The use of spray drying, evaporation, freeze drying and preservatives makes it easier to pack and keep different types of food on the shelf. Artificial sweeteners and colors help make these pickled foods more palatable. Home ovens, microwaves, blenders, and other appliances provide an easy way to prepare these meals quickly. Factories and mass production technologies made it possible to produce and package food quickly. These developments paved the way for globally popular foods such as frozen dinners, instant noodle cups, baking powders, and more.