Question

Name four processed food items.

Answer 1

Four processed food items are:

1. Refined sugar
2. Salt
3. Coffee
4. Vegetable oil

Food processing: The process of transforming food items into a form that can be used for a longer period of time.

Processed food: The food obtained by the process of food processing.

• The various methods used to process food are cooking, canning, pickling etc.
• Processing of food enhances the shelf life of food products and transform raw food materials into products that are attractive and ready to be sold in market.
• Sugar is obtained from sugarcane in the form of juice but it is processed by the methods like filtration, evaporation and decolourisation to obtain the crystals of sugar which are ready to be used and available in the market.