Effects Of Snack Food

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Technological: Technology has an irrefutable effect on the food industry. In old times, food products are produced through the use of intensive labor. There are no machineries, tools and equipment to aid in the production of these products in order to attain maximum efficiency and productivity. Through the application of technology food production began to be modernized. Nowadays, we have modern technology for processing our food products and in the process prolonging its shelf life. Snack food, merienda or food between heavy meals has been a part of our lives for a very long time. Compared to the various procedures by which homemade snacks are made, the cost has become lower and the duration is shorter. Snack food is now made available and affordable for middle and lower class. About over twenty thousand years ago, Malays brought the knowledge of use of coconut milk for sauces and around 1200 to1300 Chinese introduce “pansit” and egg rolls. When Spaniards occupied our country, Philippines for three hundred thirty-three years it influenced the Filipino Food.1 The main ingredient used was coconut milk, latik, galapong and sticky …show more content…

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