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 This is probably the best technical information I have seen aimed at the training of small scale vegetable and fruit processors. The first book covers the principles of post-harvest handling, storage and processing of fruits and vegetables while the second provides recipes and guidance to put these principles into practice. click image for free [...] With the United Nations and many of the world leaders in climate change on their way to Durban for COP-17, I think it might be worthwhile focussing on some Food Chain and Food Processing Issues that effect the carbon footprint of the food we eat. There is no lack of information and discussion in [...] I posted some general thoughts on this book when it was published a few years ago. The other day I came across it again, on the USAID site as a free download, although its published by The National Academic Press . I felt it would be worthwhile reminding readers of the book and giving them [...] This Toolkit is online on the FAO’s INPhO website (International Network of Post Harvest Operations). It is a comprehensive collection of information that could be used by a range of people from the new entrepreneur looking to understand fruit products and processors to a processors considering expansion into new products. from: INPhO (click image [...] This Zambian company produces a wide range of canned fruit and vegetables. Suppliers Website (Click the image to visit the website)
These include a wide range of products using beans, tomatoes, onion, sweet corn, sundried tomatoes, cherry peppers, pineapple, guava, and gooseberries.
[...] This is a useful 40 page document from a USAID project. What is interesting about the document is that it addresses two levels, the overall GMP & HACCP process and suggestions on how to introduce them as well as the detailed information on design, finishes, practices, conditions of processing plants that all require attention. [...] General Mills, a very large US food company, has added an portal to its website where it calls for partnerships with food science and technology researchers.
from: General Mills (click image for full story online)
The site calls for researcher’s proposals based on their own innovative ideas and offers a collection of [...] The value chain is a recent formalised system for evaluating and understanding the issues up stream and downstream of a food processing operation that can effect its viability. An example of a value chain from Cambodia is given below.
from: Agro Biz Cambodia (click image for full story online)
The full article [...] 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 [...] |
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