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Without food preservation in the society,i wonder how our lifespan on earth will be. Food is the most important thing in human existence, because it's what gives us the power to perform any task, being it online or offline. Since food is that important, i think preserving it too, is also important.

Food preservation in my own understanding is the process of maintaining the quality and safety of food product by extending it's nutritional value. Food preservation involves numerous methods and techniques, and this techniques helps to prevent or slow down the spoilage of food. Applying these techniques always help delay food spoilage, and maintain the nutritional value, until we take it inside our body.

• Nutrition and health
• Unexpected crisis/disaster
• Food spoilage

Nutrition and health
Storing or preserving food will help the food still nutritional till we're ready to use them. When we eat food with nutrients, it'll surely make us look healthy and fine. Eating nutritional food won't make us fall a victim of unnecessary sickness, that comes with spoiled foods.

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Unexpected crisis/disaster
If you can remember, as at 2019 between November to December, there was this sickness that affected the whole world, I'm talking about COVID-19. During this period, nobody in my area was allowed to go out to work, because of curfew. How did we survive? We survived because of the food we stored, when we first heard of the great disaster approaching. So storing and preserving food will help us in time of disaster and unexpected crisis.

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Food spoilage
Storing and preserving food in a good place and condition, won't allow us eat rotten or sower food. Most people say that nothing is wrong with eating sower foods. No, it's very bad to our health. So having a good techniques to preserve and store good will stop food spoilage in the house.

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• Salting
• Freezing
• Drying
• Smoking
• Rooting

Salting
When my mum do sprinkle salt on meats and stockfish, i didn't know what it meant. But now, i know very well that it helps to prolong the nutrients of those foods. The picture below shows, when i used salt and water to preserve periwinkle.

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Freezing
This is one of the most used method of preserving food. But with method, you need electricity or any means of power supply to keep your food freezed.

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Drying
This method of food preservation is also common in our society. So many people dry their fish under the sun almost everyday, to avoid it from getting spoiled.

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Smoking
Smoking as a means of preserving food was commonly used by our grandparents, it's still common now. Most people prefer smoking their fish and dried meat, so that maggots won't penetrate.

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Rooting/stemming
You may be surprised seeing this as a means of preserving food. There was once we wanted to organize a party, so we bought a lot of water leaf and curry leaf. Later on, the event was postponed, to keep those things nutritious and safe, we put back them root of the water leaf into the soil, then it start growing fresh again after some days. Also with the curry leaf, we planted the stem into the soil and it also germinated fresh and nutritious.

I really appreciate @sahmie the hoster for this great opportunity to share our own views on food preservation. I also thank my fellow steemians for the time, data and energy you spend to go through my post. I love you all.

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