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  2. Food - Wikipedia

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    Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support and energy to an organism. [2] [3] It can be raw, processed, or formulated and is consumed orally by animals for growth, health, or pleasure.

  3. Ingredient - Wikipedia

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    Ingredients for short rib soup. In a general sense, an ingredient is a substance which forms part of a mixture.In cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a dish, and the term may also refer to a specific food item in relation to its use in different recipes.

  4. Agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.

  5. Dietary fiber - Wikipedia

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    Dietary fiber is defined to be plant components that are not broken down by human digestive enzymes. [1] In the late 20th century, only lignin and some polysaccharides were known to satisfy this definition, but in the early 21st century, resistant starch and oligosaccharides were included as dietary fiber components.

  6. Product life-cycle management (marketing) - Wikipedia

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    The goals of product life cycle management (PLM) are to reduce time to market, improve product quality, reduce prototyping costs, identify potential sales opportunities and revenue contributions, maintain and sustain operational serviceability, and reduce environmental impacts at end-of-life.

  7. Food additive - Wikipedia

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    To regulate these additives and inform consumers each additive is assigned a unique number called an "E number", which is used in Europe for all approved additives.This numbering scheme has now been adopted and extended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission as the International Numbering System for Food Additives (INS) to internationally identify all additives (INS number), [3] regardless of ...

  8. Freeze drying - Wikipedia

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    Freeze-dried strawberries. Freeze drying, also known as lyophilization or cryodesiccation, is a low temperature dehydration process [1] that involves freezing the product and lowering pressure, thereby removing the ice by sublimation. [2]

  9. Molasses - Wikipedia

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    Blackstrap molasses. Molasses (/ m ə ˈ l æ s ɪ z, m oʊ-/) [1] is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar.Molasses varies in the amount of sugar, the method of extraction and age of the plant.