2017_18
Educational guide 
Faculty of Oenology
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english 
Bachelor's Degree in Biotechnology (2009)
 Subjects
  FOOD TECHNOLOGY
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
TOPIC 1: Bases of food preservation
1.1. Goals.
1.2. Classification.
1.3. Description of the main food preservation technologies.
1.4 Food shelf life (deterioration kinetics).
TOPIC 2: Industrial methods of food preservation
2.1 Factors that influence microbial development.
2.1 Procedures used in food preservation.
2.3 Industrial conservation methods.
TOPIC 3: Thermal treatments of food preservation 3.1 Reaction kinetics (microbial innactivation).
3.2 Heat conservation treatments: blanching, sterilization and pasteurization.
3.3 Cold storage treatments: refrigeration and freezing.
TOPIC 4: Conservation treatments by elimination of water 4.1 Dehydration with hot air.
4.2 Lyophilization.
TOPIC 5: Non-thermal food preservation treatments 5.1 High pressures.
5.2 Electric pulses.
5.3 Ohmic heating.
Laboratory practices (one week) Practical applications of food processes.