Computers in Food Tech

-Market research
Market research is what is helping stores and other sellers decided what selling best in the market and taking it to their advantage. This used by using loyalty cards and other forms of knowing who shops at their store and what they tend to like. The more they find out the more they have a chance of succeeding at pleasing the customer.

-recipes
Recipes are important because cooks must continue to make new recipes and foods to be able to keep up with the competition. This used to mean spending about 6 months making and perfecting a recipe where as now it is as slim as having to make a new recipe within 1 week. The recipe matters seeing as the cook must make them around certain limits now seeing as they must look at fat amount and other things that consumers look at.

-Cost and food tasting
This is the part of the process that analyses the ingredients and helps calculate the overall cost of the food through a computer database and tells the cook whether the food will be profitable or not. After the cook see’s that the food is profitable they will get food tasters to taste it to see if the food is enjoyable.

-Labeling
Labeling is a very important part of the food industry seeing as it helps the consumer see information that will help. This includes the name of the product, the date in which it may expire by, and the ingredients in it. This is important so that none of the consumers end up getting sick from the food and/ or having an allergic reaction.

-Food safety
Food safety is a major part of food that is trying to slim the contamination of food that it may slim the chances of food poisoning. They use dna to see if the food is contaminated in anyway and if it is they can track how that the food got contaminated. This helps to prevent a further outbreak of the contamination.