You are now familiar with perish ability of food and importance of selection
as well as storage of food to prevent its spoilage. Do you know how you can
actually prevent food from getting spoilt? Yes, by preserving it. You must
have seen it at your homes-potato wafers being dried, raw mango being cut
and dried, tomato sauce, chutneys, dal wadi and papads being made.
Preserved food not only adds variety to our meals but also helps in utilizing
excess produce at harvest time. Let us learn more about food preservation in
this lesson.


Food preservation is a form of processing of food to prevent it
from spoilage and making it possible to store in a fit condition for
future use.

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