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    Processed foods offer several benefits including preserving foods to increase availability, making foods safer to eat by reducing pathogens, and making transportation of delicate foods over long distances possible. Modern food processing techniques have allowed for supermarkets and long voyages, and make foods less susceptible to early spoilage. Processing can also reduce the risk of food-borne illness by reducing pathogens. The wide variety of foods available today would not be possible without processing and transportation of exotic foods.

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    Processed foods offer several benefits including preserving foods to increase availability, making foods safer to eat by reducing pathogens, and making transportation of delicate foods over long distances possible. Modern food processing techniques have allowed for supermarkets and long voyages, and make foods less susceptible to early spoilage. Processing can also reduce the risk of food-borne illness by reducing pathogens. The wide variety of foods available today would not be possible without processing and transportation of exotic foods.

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    Processed foods offer several benefits including preserving foods to increase availability, making foods safer to eat by reducing pathogens, and making transportation of delicate foods over long distances possible. Modern food processing techniques have allowed for supermarkets and long voyages, and make foods less susceptible to early spoilage. Processing can also reduce the risk of food-borne illness by reducing pathogens. The wide variety of foods available today would not be possible without processing and transportation of exotic foods.

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    Benefits[edit]

    Processed seafood – fish, squid, prawn balls and simulated crab sticks


    (surimi)

    Benefits of food processing include toxin removal, preservation,


    easing marketing and distribution tasks, and increasing food
    consistency. In addition, it increases yearly availability of many
    foods, enables transportation of delicate perishable foods across
    long distances and makes many kinds of foods safe to eat by de-
    activating spoilage and pathogenic micro-organisms.
    Modern supermarkets would not exist without modern food
    processing techniques, and long voyages would not be possible.
    Processed foods are usually less susceptible to early spoilage than
    fresh foods and are better suited for long-distance transportation
    from the source to the consumer.[3] When they were first introduced,
    some processed foods helped to alleviate food shortages and
    improved the overall nutrition of populations as it made many new
    foods available to the masses.[7]
    Processing can also reduce the incidence of food-borne disease.
    Fresh materials, such as fresh produce and raw meats, are more
    likely to harbour pathogenic micro-organisms (e.g. Salmonella)
    capable of causing serious illnesses.
    The extremely varied modern diet is only truly possible on a wide
    scale because of food processing. Transportation of more exotic
    foods, as well as the elimination of much hard labor gives the
    modern eater easy access to a wide variety of food unimaginable to
    their ancestors.[8]
    The act of processing can often improve the taste of food
    significantly.[9]
    Mass production of food is much cheaper overall than individual
    production of meals from raw ingredients. Therefore, a
    large profit potential exists for the manufacturers and suppliers of
    processed food products. Individuals may see a benefit
    in convenience, but rarely see any direct financial cost benefit in
    using processed food as compared to home preparation.
    Processed food freed people from the large amount of time involved
    in preparing and cooking "natural" unprocessed foods.[10] The
    increase in free time allows people much more choice in life style
    than previously allowed. In many families the adults are working
    away from home and therefore there is little time for the preparation
    of food based on fresh ingredients. The food industry offers
    products that fulfill many different needs: e.g. fully prepared ready
    meals that can be heated up in the microwave oven within a few
    minutes.
    Modern food processing also improves the quality of life for people
    with allergies, diabetics, and other people who cannot consume
    some common food elements. Food processing can also add extra
    nutrients such as vitamins.

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