42637 - Preparation Processes for Ready-for-Consumption Foods

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Science of Food Consumes and Catering (cod. 0874)

Learning outcomes

To give knowledges to produce and to control foodstuffs and ready to eat dishes of short and medium shelf life as refrigerated, frozen or dried condition. Knowledges on catering technologies , chilling and cooking apparatus. Particular attention on minimally processed fruit and vegetables and rmeat based ready to cook products

Course contents

Mild processing, Hurdle technology, Shelf life evaluation. Processing of vegetable raw material. Preliminary treatment to improve quality life. Principles of food analisys: pH, water activity, acidity, colour, texture. Seminars of ready to eat products. Sous vide cooking. Technology of minimally processed food and ready to cook products.Catering technologies. Chill and warm supply / serving line.

Readings/Bibliography

eacher's materials given on lin e in digital format; lectures of professional seminars
https://public.me.com/mdallarosa password on request

Teaching methods

Description of processing of RTE and Ready to cook products. Laboratory training of food analises and packaging. Study visits to food industry.

Assessment methods

Writtem test with multiple choice and open question. Description of flow diagram to produce a ready to eat products or dish and definition of suitable storage and serving conditions

Teaching tools

VCR, beamer, PC, Internet connection, flow diagrams

Office hours

See the website of Marco Dalla Rosa