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How Food Is Preserved

By MiaTsimm
  • 1600 BCE

    Around 6000 B.C

    Salt mines were discovered in Austria. Salt absorbs water from the food (micro-organisms). This means that the food can be preserved longer.
  • 800 BCE

    800 B.C

    The Ancient greeks learnt that things do not spoil as faster if it is cooled by ice or snow. This stops the bacteria growing faster than normal.
  • 100 BCE

    Early People

    Trial and error was used quiet frequently. So when the Early people existed they had discovered that if meat was smoked the meat would long a more period of time. Later in the following years more and more people started to discover that there were compounds of bacteria within the smoke of the meat so they called this phenolic compounds.

  • 1803

    Scientists discovered that if food is stored in a lunch box that it can be stored longer.

  • 1810

    Canned food was a great way to store food which was discovered by Nicholas Appert. A lot of foods are stored in cans to help prevent bacteria from going inside the food.