AUGUST 20238ood is just like emotion; it connects to heart very easily when it is finger licking yummy-licious food because our stomach and heart has an inseparable connection. Science and technology have witnessed an explosive and evolving evolution in recent years and showed an astounding impact in every sector of the industry. Food and Beverage industry also has been able to jump to the crux owing to advanced food technology. During 2020, when the whole world came to a standstill, the part and parcel of the food and beverage industry fell down with a bang on its face and met with a huge loss.How food technology is evolving innovation and creativity?Innovation & Cost Effectiveness: Technology has pushed the idea of innovation by giving the expert chefs and cooks to bring their ideas to the forefront and also helped them to know whether their ideas are profitable or not by the system of customer feedbacks. For the young startups who don't want to spend much money to set-up a business, they can use technology and set-up cloud kitchen with very nominal cost and deliver the delicacies online and create an identity in the market. In comparison to renting a space, set-up the interior, kitchen, employ peoples it is way too cheap for a business.Women Empowerment: Previously, women in rural areas, town, or transition area used to fasten themselves behind the kitchen doors, and served their delicious hand-made foods to their families. But, now with the use of technology, women with good culinary skills have been able to come forward and given birth to numerous brands which have become popular. Women, who were busy with their Chulha and Chauka are presently earning millions. This concept has surely triggered the zeal for being a successful entrepreneur, and pushed the concept of woman empowerment.Promoting Local Home-made Food: Money is very important for making our ends meet, and for earning money, sometime we need to leave our home, locality, the familiar alleys and neighborhood. Then we start missing our local authentic foods that we used to eat. With the advancement of technology, mobile applications and companies have made their presence in the industry who delivers homemade food to their dedicated customers who wants to taste authentic cuisines from their hometown and AI helps to search for the same food nearby if available and notify the person about it. As the result, the local, authentic cuisines are earning applauses and making their presence in front of the world.How food technology is helping the food and beverage industry to grow?Before heading towards a food venture, the points about food technology we should know to minimize the difficulties. Enhances the Quality & Increases the Shelf-life: Advanced science and technology has helped to increase the quality of food products and increase the shelf-life of them by increasing expiration period. Especially, dairy products are easily spoiled, so these products need a good attention but scientific advancement has helped milk products and liquid milk to continue to be consumable for longer days. Famous brands like Nandini and Amul have introduced processed liquid milk which can continue to stay fine without fridge for a long time retaining all the nutritional values.Eliminates Bacteria from Food: Food technology is helping to keep a check on the quality of the food products by eliminating the harmful effects of bacteria, virus and minute cellular microorganisms which are difficult to discover with naked eyes. Delivers Personalized Food Products: Personalizing and customizing is one of the top trends in any sector FFOOD TECHNOLOGY: FORTIFYING THE YOUNG MINDS & NEW IDEASSC COLUMN
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