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Who is called the “father of canning”?

(a) Peter Durand

(b) Bryan Donkin

(c) Nicholas Appert

(d) Robert Yeates

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Right option is (c) Nicholas Appert

The explanation: Nicholas Appert is known as the “father of canning”. He was a confectioner. In 1809, in France, Nicolas Appert produced the means of thermally preserving food in hermetically sealed glass jars.

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