Food Technology: Career, Placements and Education Information

What is Food Technology?

Food Technology involves a blend of physical, chemical or microbiological processes and techniques for transforming raw ingredients into food and also other forms in food processing industry. Food processing refers to converting the raw ingredients into edible components or transforming food into other edible forms. Food processors typically take clean, harvested crops or butchered animal products and use them to produce attractive, marketable food products with long shelf-life. Similar processes apply to animal feed.

Scope of Food Technology?

• As organic chemists, food technologist advises on the methods by which the raw materials have to be converted into processed food.
• As biochemists, they suggest improvements in flavor, texture, storage, and quality.
• As engineers, they are required for planning, designing, improving and maintaining the processing systems.
• As research scientists, they carry out experiments regarding improvement in yield, flavor, nutritive value and general acceptability of the packaged food.
• As managers and accountants, they manage administration and the finances apart from supervising the processing work.

Placements

• Agro Tech Food
• Amul
• Britannia Industries Ltd.
• Cadbury
• Danbury India Ltd.
• Godrej Industries Ltd.
• Hindustan Lever
• Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt. Ltd.