Contest Alert 🚨 : Preserve Food, Preserve Life

Hello fellow steemians,

How are you all doing today? I hope you all are doing well. I am very happy to be in your midst today and I'm also very happy to be a member of this community and also to be participating in this noble contest.

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What do you understand by food preservation?

Food preservation is a systematic way of using various methods to keep food from spoiling and keeping it safe to be used in times of scarcity, or the act of keeping food from spoiling through the application of natural and non-natural substances or processes so as to create availability when needed in the times of scarcity.

Lack of adequate door preserving skills and abilities is the major reason for food shortages in the world and it is obvious that there will be no peaceful world without food security. In a world, that is populated with billions of people, revolutionary agricultural practices will amount to total fertility without adequate food preserving methods and facilities manned and managed by highly trend personnel in collaboration with sincere and committed government policies.

One of man's basic need is food ,money and other means of purchases will be useless without food to purchase. One of the most instructive and the most classical example of the unarguable need to preserve food is from the Bible where a whole nation and entire world was saved by the timely advice of a man called Joseph who advised that food should be stored and preserved for dire times of scarcity.
The ability of ancient Egypt to use the wisdom of Joseph made her the super power of the ancient world and therefore food is power.

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List and explain 3 reasons why we preserve and store food

• To make food available in times is scarcity is very important and benefitial for use to store and preserve our food and it is worth saying now that we save up our resources in time of plenty so we can enjoy it in time of scarcity

• To preserve the the quality of food

Without preservation and storage, our foods will be a waste and their quality fades away due to dumping and showing less concern to it.

• To provide employment
  Preservation and storage of foods can engage people to employments as agricultural officials. Agriculture is a nice course in terms of preservation and storage.

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List and explain any five methods you use to preserve food.

• Canning
  This is a method which involves putting food especially very highly perishable foods in containers which could be metals or plastics. food substances normally can include fish ,meat and fruits. This process also involves sterilizing the container that will used for canning the food,putting the food after eliminating air from the container and selling it to make it air tight.

• Drying
  This involves the use of electrical appliances to remove moisture or water from the food or the use of sunshine to which is the commonly used method which involves spreading the foods so that the sunlight or heat from the sun is used in draining moisture and water from the food, heat from fire can also be used. Foods that can preserved in this way includes fish,meat,and cereals.

• Milling
  This method involve the use of a simple mechanical or industrial apparatus to grind food to powder after eliminating water and moisture from the food. When food is milled it is easier to store in bags and packets as long as water and moisture is eliminated and foods that are milled includes seeds like corn, cassava and many more.

• FREEZING
  This involves placing foods in a very cold temperature, this process can be done with our refrigerators and freezers. this is a very good process and it is advisable for people to use this method as bacteria and other micro-organisms cannot survive in a very cold temperature and any kind of food can be stored with this process.

• SALTING
  This process involves adding salt to our food, and it only requires that you boil your food with a little amount of water and enough salt, this is commonly used everywhere and it seems to be the most simplest among them all. Some of the foods involved in this process are meat, fish, tomatoes and many more.

Conclusion

I am no doubt very glad and happy to be in this wonderful community and I also appreciate you all for your unwavering support, I am using this opportunity to invite @richy20 and @chukwu10 to participate in this contest .

Regards
@sahmie