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GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition · key term
The preparation of raw food materials to make them edible or suitable for further processing, including harvesting, cleaning, milling and treating milk.
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Specification 3.6.2.1 · Paper 1
Revise: Food Production StagesPrimary processing prepares raw food materials so that they can be eaten or processed further. Secondary processing transforms primary-processed ingredients into new food products. The distinction is about what the process does, not whether it happens in a factory or a kitchen.
Classify the stage by what happens: wheat into flour is primary processing; flour into bread or pasta is secondary processing.
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