Employees at a food lab cross-train as chefs, food scientists, engineers and marketing specialists to deliver products for clients.

When cars had big fins and the Space Race wasn’t just a video game, engineered food was all the rage, and kids dropped all their lunch money on synthetic astronaut drinks and freeze-dried ice cream. Today, engineered food has a somewhat different stigma. Preservatives and food colorings are suspect and the latest, greatest morsels science has to of

Food engineering refers to the engineering aspects of food production and processing. Food engineering includes, but is not limited to, the application of agricultural engineering and chemical engineering principles to food materials. Genetic engineering of plants and animals is not normally the work of a food engineer.Food engineering is a very wide field of activities. Among its domain of knowledge and action are:Design of machinery and processes to produce foodsDesign and implementation of food safety and preservation measures in the production of foodsBiotechnological processes of food productionChoice and design of food packaging materialsQuality control of food production See alsoFood scienceAgricultural engineeringAseptic Processing