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Show Page The UTAH INDEPENDENT 10 April Most of these processes were developed for the purpose of stabilizing the quality and palatibility of foodstuffs over the longest period of time. Drying foods is one of the oldest known processes for preserving foods. Modern technology has developed techniques where nearlj all of the moisture dow n to 5 ) can be removed from many foods and still have a product that is virtually unchanged in lla or, color and nutritive value. FAMILY FOOD RESERVE PROGRAM PART III (Mini-Moistu- WHAT KINDS OF FOOD SHOULD BE STORED? IV This question suggests the need lor a criteria from which selections can be made. The following standards were used as a basis for the foods selected. 1. Nutritional adequacy. 2. Food stability methods of food Mini-Moistu- processing. food value to bulk ratio. 4. Minimum garbage and trash volume. 5. Economic feasibility. NUTRITIONAL I. ADEQUACY. A family food reserve, to be used for more than 4 weeks, needs to be nutritionally adequate to avoid serious lack of energy and dietary 2-- difficiency diseases. These National Board. 8-- 12 Academy of Sciences - National Council Research as Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances (revised 1968). 2. FOOD STABILITY This is an important standard in food storage. There are many factors involved. Some are intrinsic or dependent upon the nature of the food itself, such as stage of maturity, moisture content as usually used, resistance to mechanical damage, enzymatic or oxidative changes, or biological deterioration. One example: there is a great difference between the stability of a ripe tomato and a ripe kernel of w heat fresh and dried ear corn. Some other factors are dependent on whether the food is processed or not. Examples: Raw milk and pasturized milk: raw meat and cooked meat. Some factors have to do with refining or using only certain parts of a food product. Examples: Cane molasses and cane sugar; corn kernels- - and corn starch. In many respects, the ability the food item has to be processed, controlled, or refined in various ways is the most important factor in stability. A partial listing of common would include: (I) processes Washing and cleaning (2) Wet pack, processed with liquids, (3) Drying by sun. heated air. while and Iroen. under acuum, spraying. (4) Adding chemicals to prevent enzmatic, oxidative or , bacterial corn-on-the-c- Mini-Moistu- re 1 awkward nonuniform 1 (5) irradiation. the ultimate in and packaging of the regular trade items. The weight increase of wet pack foods would also be several times greater. The 16 sq. ft. floor space or 28 cu. tt. volume is tor the familv of five food supply. AM IS ! MUM GARBAGE AND TRASH VOLUME This is another rather obvious value that has particular merit when considering product use. The low -- moisture foods discussed above are harvested in the best state of maturity and prepared for processing by carefully selecting, cleaning. trimming, peeling, cutting, and removing waste parts before the moisture is removed. You may use only the amount you need for a given meal and the rest may be kept without refrigeration. 5. ECONOMIC AND TIME FEASIBILITY. The food items selected must be priced w ithin reasonable limits and be consistently available. This criteria eliminated several items that would have been desirable. Uniform containers and cartons may he economically stored in a small space. They are easily and ob deterioration, re, Mini-Moistu- re standards are set by the Food and Nutrition re Carefully selected distinctively flavored natural foods of the highest quality and nutritional balance were chosen for the family food reserve to avoid all the inherent problems of storing wet pack foods (bacterial spoilage, hydrogen swells, flavor changes due to dissolved tim. critical heat tolerance, mushiness, etc.) 3. HIGH FOOD VALUE TO BULK RA TIO This criterian is rather obvious when storage space is limited or you wish to get the most product in a particular container, or when moving the food reserve. foods contain as much as 90 - 97 useable food solids as in water compared to only is packed foods. This a tremendous factor in space economy. The amount of space needed for a years food supply of 2 would he less than ft. by 8 ft. (16 sq. ft.) or 2 ft. by 8 ft. by 8 ft ( 28 cu. ft.). Where water packed food makes up even 50 of the program you would need 3 to 5 times as much space, not counting shelves, etc. necessary to handle the 3. High SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED Phone BROCHURE 487-103- 1 fine candies Cummings QAM TO fi;30 P.M. DAILY used and less expensive if they need to be moved, conveniently The American average housewife is so busily engaged in being a mother, cook, nurse, laundry assistant, gardener, little league director, transportation CLOSED SUNDAY COINS SII.VKR oxygen that causes deteriorative changes is trapped inside. Vacuum packing is more effective than just hermetically However, the major sealing. weakness of this method is that all the oxygen is not removed and if perforations develop, oxygen is inside by atmospheric forced pressure, supervisor, etc., that she seldom has time to even get necessary things done. The husband, in many instances, is holding two jobs or Next Article: Labeling and Health working 0 to 2 hours a day in his Requirements, own business. Both husband and w ife have dozens of decisions to make daily just to keep the family happy. It is no wonder then, that it is so frustrating to find time to obtain good answers to your family food reserve problems, let alone find time to actually select, Continued from Page 8 package, and store correct of food. amounts might offend the bankers, or between Price comparisons expose their graft. fruits and vegetables, fresh and But you voters do hold the real with processed power over Congress. Any Iruits and vegetables, reveals some Congressman who would recdve a economically valuable data. A true hundred etters a d on ,his comparison of the cost of nutrients subject from his voting may be made only if a moisture- - constituentSt woud hurry to get in Iree basis is used for each. line, and help Congressman Jerry For example, a fresh tomato Voorhis in his plan to have the contains only 6 nutrient solids government buy out the Federal while the tomato Reserve Bank, and issue our own Hakes contains 95 nutrient solids, currency in accord with the In addition there is a waste factor constitution (Art. I, Sec. 8, par.5.) for the fresh tomato that is used by Under the original charter processors to compute loss due to provision of the Federal Reserve coring, spoilage, bad spots, etc. Bank, the government could do Canned tomatoes also contain only this for about $140,000,000. and 6 solids. On a current retail cost take over all the assets of the basis the solids in M-tomato system, amounting to some Hakes cost approximately $2.75 $29,000,000,000. This would mean per lb. and the canned tomatoes (16 that we would be getting about 200 oz. net wt. per can, priced at 21 for 1, and it would be one time that cents with 6 solids), costs $3.50 a good business deal would be made by and for our government. per lb. of solid nutrients. It makes good economic time Every time you buy a gallon of and money sense then, in such a gasoline ora package of cigarettes, busy world to have excellent and every time you go to a movie storage foods, organized, properly you have to include a tax which the packaged and made easily Government has to take to be sure available for a reasonable person- - the Wall Street bankers get their interest. Any time you get tire of it, you can aid in stopping it by writing to your Congressman. INTERNAL ATMOSPHERE No doubt we deserve just what The internal atmosphere of the we have as a banking system, for can is important in stabilizing a we have sat by like morons and re product for long life. Using allowed it to be put over on us. You foods eliminates or fellows who do nothing about it minimizes the major deteriorative deserve to be gypped. But the changes except oxidation. To solve trouble is that those of us who do this problem a Stabilized Storage U''0 do somethlnS' have 10 suffer Atmosphere (SSA) was developed. with you. It consists of a mixture of relatively Now get busy and write to your inert gasses. One heavier than air, it and do it another lighter than air, and for Congressman about it and do often. some of the products a fumigant, to quickly avoid any insect activity. This Stabilized Storage Atmosphere introduced as the food is packed is an assurance that the maximum freshness, nutrients, and distinctive foods flavor of the without maintained be will refrigeration or rotation. Contrast this with normal canning: ABORTION Hcrcmctically scaled cans indicate I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! only that the can is air tight. 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