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Convenience foods include which categories?

Rice, noodles, grains and other grains as the main raw materials processed, only simple cooking can be used as a staple food with easy to eat, easy to carry, easy to store and other characteristics of food manufacturing.

There are many types of convenience foods, which can be roughly divided into the following four types.

One: ready-to-eat food:

such as a variety of pastries, bread, steamed buns, cakes, sesame seeds, dumplings, dumplings, wontons, etc., this type of food is usually bought to eat, and each has its own characteristics.

Two: frozen food:

It is a variety of food pre-cooked, and then put into a container quickly frozen, slightly heated can be eaten.

Three: dry or powdered convenience foods:

These foods like instant noodles, instant rice noodles, instant rice, instant beverages or seasonings, instant milk powder, etc. can also be eaten immediately by adding water to soak or boiling water.

Four: Canned food:

That is to say, instead of metal and glass bottles with a film in a can. This food is better to maintain the original flavor of the food, small size, light weight, hygiene and convenience, but the price is slightly higher.

In addition, there is a part of the semi-finished food, is also considered convenience food.

Five: convenience dishes: refers to the Chinese dishes through the process of improving the mass production, followed by quantitative packaging, frozen convenience dishes, water bath heating bags ready to eat. It inherits the color and flavor of the traditional cooking process, to meet the fast-paced life on the demand for delicious.