World Food Science and Technology Congress

Food Storage and Preservation

The term Food preservation refers to anybody of variety of techniques accustomed stop food from spoiling. It includes strategies like canning, pickling, drying and desiccation, irradiation, Pasteurization, smoking, and also the addition of Chemical additives. Food preservation is inseparable from where the food is stored. The storage of food is done in a suitable environment. This often means a dry, cool place. There are several places in which food can be stored. These include Food storage rooms as pantry's (rooms in the house, near the kitchen) or separate food storage rooms above ground,  or even underground and  root cellars, store rooms, even mere burial is possible. Keeping food with adequate treatment for a longer period is also called Food storage by using different techniques.