3.6.2.1 Food Production Stages — AQA Food Preparation and Nutrition 8585 | GradeGen
AQA GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition · 8585
Food Production Stages
What you need to know
Define and distinguish between the primary and secondary stages of food processing and production.
Describe primary processing activities, including rearing, fishing, growing, harvesting, and cleaning raw materials, with specific examples such as the milling of wheat and various heat treatments of milk (pasteurised, UHT, sterilised, and micro-filtered).
Explain secondary processing, detailing how primary ingredients are converted into complex food products, such as turning flour into bread or pasta, milk into cheese or yoghurt, and fruit into jams.
Analyze how processing methods, specifically heating and drying, affect the nutritional properties of ingredients, such as the loss of vital vitamins.
Evaluate the impact of heating and drying on the sensory characteristics of foods, using milk as a primary analytical example.
Apply understanding of secondary processing by making, shaping, and cooking fresh pasta dough.
