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Certificate in Food Processing

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Food Processing


About Food Processing

The process of converting agricultural materials into food or changing one type of food into another is known as food processing. From home cooking to sophisticated industrial processes used to produce convenience meals, food processing encompasses a wide range of food preparation techniques.

Why is Food Processing important?

Food that has been processed is preserved so it may be consumed beyond the harvest season, making it more delicious, safe, and edible. Food processing is another method that promotes food diversity and the consumer's choice by doing so.

Food goods' shelf lives are extended by it. Avoid contaminating your meals. Transportation and food storage. produces appealing, marketable food items from raw food ingredients.

Who should take the Food Processing Exam?

  • Food processing managers, senior executives, executives
  • Food and beverage entrepreneurs
  • Food and beverage processors
  • Food scientists
  • Chefs and caterers
  • Farmers/growers
  • State and federal inspectors
  • Food consultants

Food Processing Certification Course Outline

  1. Why are Foods Processed?
  2. Processing by Application of Heat
  3. Using Steam or Water:  
  4. Blanching
  5. Pasteurization  
  6. Heat Sterilization  
  7. Evaporation and Distillation
  8. Dehydration  
  9. Irradiation
  10. Baking and Roasting Frying
  11. Microwave and Ohmic Heating  
  12. Size Reduction of Solid Foods
  13. Size Reduction of Liquid Foods
  14. Alternative Processing Technologies
  15. High-Pressure Processing
  16. Pulsed Electric Field

Certificate in Food Processing FAQs

The result will be declared immediately on submission.

You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

No there is no negative marking

There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.

It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.