• Devi@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    Food engineering is engineering in the food industry, so like developing and streamlining manufacturing, developing new packaging, that sort of thing.

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      8 months ago

      Also development of preservation and preparation techniques.

      To that extent: pringles are pressed potato powder. Because it meets the need of a chip that is easily and precisely formed, easily preserved and falls apart with little pressure.

      To describe fast food and highly processed junk foods as anything but engineered does a disservice to the word “engineering”.

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        8 months ago

        For developing fast food for example you’d want a food science degree rather than a food engineering one.