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Eight methods used to preserve Food are as follows: 1. Storing food 2. Drying 3. Freezing 4. Adding preservatives 5. Heating 6. Pasteurisation 7. Canning 8. Vacuum-packing.

Foregoing analysis shows that India has made sufficient achievement in industrial development during the last five decades and has emerged as the tenth largest industrialized country of the world. But considering the size of the country this development is far from satisfactory.

Prepare all the ingredients and keep them ready for cooking. This means you can cook rapidly. If you have to stop cooking for a short while shut off the gas. It's cheaper to light another match.

(a) Select sound fruits and vegetables and discard rotten parts, or pieces.

We eat food whenever we feel hungry. Wherever some function(s) of body starts slowing down, the need to replenish one or more nutrients is felt in the form of hunger.

It is disturbances in eating behavior that involve maladaptive and unhealthy efforts to control body weight.

Food fad is something which does not have any scientific basis and persists for several years or generations after generations. 'Fad' word has been taken from "faddle" which means to play with. As regards food, people play with certain ideas and that is followed by others as a fashion or pursuit. It may live for long or die away after a short time.

Even though the chief function of the food is to supply energy to meet physiological needs and to maintain body in good health, but it serves other functions also. These are described as below:

The produce from the land is not enough to cope with rapid increase in popula­tion, hence, to solve the food problem the following steps can be resorted to: