Bananas represent on of the most widely traded agricultural goods in the world with annual export valued at five billion dollars. There are two main varieties of bananas, the fruit or sweet banana and the plantain. Monday, February 12, 2018. The yellow and orange-fleshed bananas are rich in provitamin A and other carotenoids. Provitamin A carotenoids, including β-carotene, are important for protecting against vitamin A efficiency and anemia.

Cereals are cultivated members of the grass family and as such are therefore monocotyledonous angiosperm. By definition, cereal comprises all the cereal products prepared from grain. Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Effect of drying method on proteins. For example, the protein of dried wheat may be altered to such an extent that flour produced from the wheat will no longer produce acceptable bread.

The word chocolate is derived from the Aztecs names for the tree, and for the drink they prepared from the beans. Chocolate was first cultivated as a crop, by ancient Mesoamerican peoples. They used cacao beans to create a frothy chocolate drink flavored with spices. Monday, March 05, 2018. Dark chocolate can help lower high blood pressure. It has been hypothesized that flavonoi.

Welcome to our crop production blog. There are variety of crop. A crop is any plant that is grown in significant quantities to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or for any other economic purpose.

Dairy products are produced from milk. Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Blue cheese is a type of cheese characterized by visible blue-green veins of mold throughout the interior cheese and by a sharp, piquant flavor. The typical appearance of the blue mold cheese varieties is due to the growth and development of the mold Penicillium roqueforti.

The word fish is used to classify one type of food much the same as meat, poultry, and cheese, varieties of fish are much greater in number than those other foods. At least 50 species of fish and shellfish are used as food for human consumptions in United States alone. Saturday, March 17, 2018. Mollusks are surrounded either wholly or partially by a hard shell. Common types include clams, oysters, scallops and mussels.

Welcome to the Food Borne Disease Site. The sources of the foodborne illness pathogens are ubiquitous. Food and food products will always be contaminated with low levels of pathogens. At low levels, pathogenic microorganisms cause no problems. At illness thresholds, however, they can make people ill and cause death. Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

Just another blog about food processing and the important of food processing. It is about the conversion of raw materials or ingredients into the consumer product. Food processing also can be defined as the branch of manufacturing that starts with raw animal, vegetable, or marine materials and transforms them into intermediate foods stuff or edible products through the application of labor, machinery, energy, and scientific knowledge. Friday, April 13, 2018.