Answer:
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. Bagoong is the most popular fermented product in the Philippines
Step-by-step explanation:
Food processing is any method or technique employed to turn raw materials of animal or plant origin into finished food products. It involves also the process of preservation of the processed food materials.
Fish preservation is done to prevent spoilage since fish is very perishable. Fish preservation employs a variety of methods to extend the shelf life of fish and other fishery products. Some of the preservation methods used include salting, smoking or dehydration, freezing, canning, pickling, etc.
Considering the given statements:
1. Food processing is any method used to turn fresh foods into food products. True
2. Smoking is one of the methods in processing fish which is also known as
dehydration. True
Smoking involves using heat from burning wood materials to remove water from fish.
3. Salting is the process that lowers the moisture or water content of fish and other
fishery products to a point where microorganisms cannot live and grow. True
Salting uses salts like common salt applied ompnnthe fish to draw out water by osmosis as well as to prevent the growth of microorganisms
4. Pickling is a method of preserving food in brine or vinegar. True.
Pickling is the process of preserving foods by immersion in brine or vinegar which creates a high salt or acid concentration environment that kills off microbes and causes food to change in flavor and texture.
5. Bagoong is the most popular fermented product in the Philippi
The sentence above is incomplete. The complete sentence is:
Bagoong is the most popular fermented product in the Philippines