Extrusion Food Processing Technology
Extrusion-technology is gaining increasing popularity
in the global agro-food processing
Extrusion cooking technologies are used for cereal
and protein processing in food.
Now a day’s consumers do choice for nutritionally rich,
therapeutic benefits and for attractiveness especially in
case of baby foods.
Thus to obtain above mentioned designer food, Food
Extrusion technology is used.
Extrusion cooking is a high-temperature
short-time (HTST) process.
which reduces microbial contamination and
inactivates enzymes.
The main method of preservation of both
hot- and cold-extruded foods is by the low
water activity of the product (0.1–0.4),
and for semi-moist products in particular,
by the packaging materials that are used.