42637 - Preparation Processes for Ready-for-Consumption Foods

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Food Consumption and Catering Sciences (cod. 0349)

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. Technologies of wine production. Technology of minimally processed food and ready to cook products.Catering technologies. Chill and warm supply / serving line.

Readings/Bibliography

teacher’s materials given on lin e in digital format; lectures of professional seminars
http://homepage.mac.com/mdallarosa password on request

Teaching methods

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

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

Links to further information

http://homepage.mac.com/mdallarosa

Office hours

See the website of Marco Dalla Rosa