______ is a method of heating fruits and vegetables in boiling water or steam for some time.

Concept:

• Blanching is scalding vegetables in boiling water or steam for a short time.

Explanation:

Blanching:

• Blanching is a cooking process.
• In this method, a food, usually a vegetable or fruit, is treated with boiling liquid or steam.
• It is removed after a brief, timed interval.
• Finally plunged into iced water or placed under cold running water to halt the cooking process.
• Both in the home kitchen and the food business, blanching is a pre-treatment method.
• Its primary goal in both situations is to deactivate the enzymes that result in browning, textural changes, and bad tastes.

Thus, blanching is a method of heating fruits and vegetables in boiling water or steam for some time.

Additional InformationFreezing:

• Freezing is a food preservation technique that involves decreasing the temperature to stop bacterial growth.
• There are two types of freezing methods present, one with a circulating refrigerator called mechanical freezing and another with liquid nitrogen application known as the cryogenic process.

 Bottling:

• It is a process where drinks are put in bottles for sale, by a bottling company.
• This process is done by Form Fill Sealing (FFS) machines..