Question

As a thumb rule in the food industry, reducing the temperature of storage by 10degC increases the life of food item by twice and increasing by 10degC reduces by half.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me in an interview for job.

My doubt is from Food Preservation-2 topic in portion Food Preservation, Principles of Fresh Food Storage,  Principles of Refrigerated Gas Storage of Foods and Principles of Food Freezing of Food Engineering

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) True

To explain I would say: As a thumb rule in the food industry, reducing the temperature of storage by 10degC increases the life of food item by twice and increasing by 10degC reduces by half.