RMIT University

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This course deals with the technology involved in the initial and further processing, storage and packaging of plant derived food products. This includes processing of plant commodities (e.g. grains, fruit and vegetables), and substantially transformed food products with a significant plant component (e.g. confectionery and chocolate). The topics covered will include: Processing to convert bulk commodities into ingredients suitable for further processing into consumer products Processing to produce substantially transformed plant based food products (e.g. confectionery and chocolate) The importance of packaging technologies in fresh and minimally processed plant based products