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III. Read and translate the text:

TEXT A

Methods of Food Preservation.

As the principal spoilage agents are normally present in food, to destroy them or to prevent their development becomes the chief problem of food preservation. Methods commonly used include refrigeration, canning, freezing, the use of preservatives, drying and common storage under suitable conditions.

Heating. Food is commonly preserved through the application of high temperatures. Foods are pasteurized at a temperature of from 600 to 660 for thirty to forty minutes, during which time most of the organisms are killed. Spores and some vegetative forms of bacteria remain, but as a rule those causing disease are destroyed. This method is used for temporary preservation of milk, and for preservation of fruit juices and other fruit products of delicate flavor. Sterilization of a food destroys all life in it or on it, and involves heating for a longer time or at a higher temperature than is necessary for pasteurization.

The fact that in canning the sterilized or pasteurized food is protected from fresh contamination by microorganisms accounts, at least in part, for popularity of the process as a means of food preservation. Before the discovery of canning it was impossible to keep perishable foods for any great length of time.

Certain chemicals are helpful in preserving foods either by retarding or preventing the growth of microorganisms. These may be either added to the product or produced in it by fermentation. Sugar is often used in such quantities as to increase the concentration of the food and make it an unfavorable medium for the organisms. Salt and acid, in the form of vinegar or lemon juice, are other substances added for their preservation action. Salting of foods was an early method of preservation.

III Answer the questions:

1.What is the chief problem of food preservation?

2.What are the methods of food preservation?

3.What are foods pasteurized for?

4. What is the difference between sterilization and pasteurization?

5.What the sterilized or pasteurized food in canning is protected from?

6. What chemicals are helpful in preserving foods?

7.What is sugar used in food preservation for?

IV Complete the sentences with the words from the text:

1.Spores and some vegetative forms of bacteria remain, but as a rule those causing disease are _______________.

2.This method is used for ____________preservation of milk, and for preservation of fruit juices and other fruit products of delicate flavor.

3. Sterilization of a food destroys all life in it or on it, and involves heating for a longer time or at a higher temperature than is necessary for _______________.

4.These may be either _______________ to the product or produced in it by fermentation.

5.Sugar is often used in such quantities as to increase the __________________ of the food and make it an unfavorable medium for the ______________.

V Guess the meanings of the following words. Make up sentences with them.

Normally; organism; method; protect; concentration; form; fruit; popularity; temperature; vegetative; product; process; action; bacteria; sterilization; produce;

minute; spore; pasteurization; lemon