Category Archives: Preservatives

Until a few decades ago, food preservation was a problem that had lasted for millennia. Food availability was limited to the harvest season. Man had to find a way to store food because he needed it throughout the year, he needed to invent methods by which food items could be stored for a longer time without loss in taste and quality. Foods can be distinguished between perishable and non-perishable. Perishable ones are those foods which deteriorate quickly because of the attack of micro-or......