Which of the following sentence is true with respect to food storage/preservation?

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asked Jan 30, 2022 in Food Engineering by Amelia (93.7k points)

Which of the following sentence is true with respect to food storage/preservation?

(a) Each food type has a potential storage life

(b) The mechanical abuse that food has received during storage/distribution does not affects its storage stability

(c) All of the mentioned

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was posed to me in an interview for internship.

My enquiry is from Food Preservation-1 in chapter Food Preservation, Principles of Fresh Food Storage, Principles of Refrigerated Gas Storage of Foods and Principles of Food Freezing of Food Engineering

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