Food preservation
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Food preservation is the name for a number of processes. These processes help to preserve food. This means that the food treated that way will go bad later that if it had not been treated that way. Common ways of preserving food are:
- Treatment with heat
- Treatment with brine (for vegetables, meat, fish)
- Treatment with alcohol or vinegar
- Treatment with sugar
- Drying
- Smoking (treatment with carbon dioxide)
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