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Combined Preservation Methods – Free Technology Information

Here’s another one of those amazing FAO books. Although its focussed on rural processing it presents technologies that can produce products the equal of large industry.

 

from: FAO (click image for full story online)

 

This is mainly hurdle technology where shelf stability is achieved by a combination of processes and ingredients rather [...]

Almond Industry

This story gives very encouraging data for the growth of the almond market. Caution is necessary because this situation could already have resulted in increased planting.

A good overview of how the total number of trees is changing with old trees being removed and new trees being planted.

 

from: flickr (click image to [...]

Beautiful Trends and Useful?

There’s no doubt that these presentations of a pile of data on trends in grocery purchases are beautiful.

 

from: Times Online Labs (click image for full story online)

 

The comparison between butter and margarine is striking. The consumption of butter fell as the cholesterol danger was pushed, allowing margarine to grow [...]

Small Scale Solar Water Distillation

What about this for a clever idea?

 

Product Development – Free Online Book

In a previous post I gave information about an online book on Unit Operations in Food Processing that had been published by the New Zealand Institute of Food Science . To me this was a very informative and useful book on the engineering aspects of food processing.

 

from: NZIFST (click image for [...]