Food Processing Innovations are a Powerful Enabler of the Future of Food, Making a Compelling Case for Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Between Industry and Academia to Ensure a Sustainable Future

Abstract

The improvement of food security, safety, nutrition, health, economics, and sustainability has been greatly aided by food processing. Technologies like canning, thermal processing, and refrigeration helped prolong shelf life, availability, and cost. With the anticipated population growth and demand for food production together with the need to enhance nutritional attributes of the foods, food processing has an important role in delivering innovations to drive sustainability and health attributes of the products. This will require a concerted effort between industry, academia, and funding agencies to lay a strong foundation to deliver innovations in food processing for a sustainable future.