Whois & Analysis for fooddive.com

Food processing is the transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms.

Food processing combines raw food ingredients to produce marketable food products that can be easily prepared and served by the consumer.

Food processing typically involves activities such as mincing and macerating, liquefaction, emulsification, and cooking (such as boiling, broiling, frying, or grilling); pickling, pasteurization, and many other kinds of preservation; and canning or other packaging.

(Primary-processing such as dicing or slicing, freezing or drying when leading to secondary products are also included).

The Food Industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply most of the food consumed by the world population.

Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, and hunter-gatherers can be considered outside of the scope of the modern food industry.

In ecology, sustainability (from sustain and ability) is the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive .

Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems.

In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes.

The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture.

Sustainability science is the study of sustainable development and environmental science.

Regulation is an abstract concept of management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.

In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context.

For example:

Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.

The American Marketing Association has defined marketing as "the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.".