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Food Inventions Timeline

  • Coffee Filters

    Coffee Filters

    Coffee Filters aloud everyone to be able to quickly make their own coffee at home
  • Vegetable Shortening

    Vegetable Shortening

    Shortening improved the making of doughs. It made whatever your baking have a better color, smell better, last longer, and made it more tender.
  • Prepackaging

    Prepackaging

    Prepackaging fruits and vegetables was a huge step from grower to consumer. It was a good way to get the produce clean and fresh to where ever it had to be transported to.
  • Canning

    Canning

    Canning was invented in 1810, but the first commercial canning wasn't until 1912. Canning is very important because it's a way to preserve food.
  • Vitamins

    Vitamins

    The discovery of vitamins was very important because it really helped nutritional research and helped figure out vitamin deficiencies.
  • Fridge for Homes

    Fridge for Homes

    Fridges keep our food safe to eat. Foods will grow bacteria when they're exposed to moisture and certain temperatures, the fridge can prevent that.
  • Milk Box

    Milk Box

    Milk boxes were so important because it was because of refrigeration. When the fridge was able to be in everyones home, they were able to store milk at their house. There was no need for the milkman to stop by anymore.
  • AGA Cooker

    AGA Cooker

    It made cooking in an oven at home way easier. Instead of being exhausted by getting the coal for the oven to heat up, it could do it on it's own.
  • Blender

    Blender

    The blender is important because it helped people who can't chew solid food eat better. Also it stirred and tore up food better than doing it yourself.
  • Freezer Dried Foods

    Freezer Dried Foods

    It was a very good way to preserve your food, like canning. Also a perfect food for astronauts.
  • Frozen Fruit Juice

    Frozen Fruit Juice

    Frozen Fruit Juice was a big deal in the 1940's because during World War 2 they needed a way to keep their troops up with Vitamin C. Therefor they discovered away to keep the juice semi fresh while frozen.
  • Moisture Control

    Moisture Control

    Moisture Control is so important because it prevents spoilage. Fruits and vegetables have a short shelf life. Using moisture control helps it stay safe to eat.
  • At Home Freezer

    At Home Freezer

    After the fridge reached homes the freezer came. The freezer allowed people to preserve food frozen at home, and keep things like ice frozen. The freezer over the fridge became a very popular model.
  • Microwave

    Microwave

    Microwaves heats up food very fast. The heat energy directly hits molecules on the food to make it warm faster.
  • Corn Syrup

    Corn Syrup

    Corn syrup is important because it helps soften textures of food, add volume, and improve flavor.
  • Gas Grill

    Gas Grill

    Grills allow us to cook food while applying heat to the bottom. But before the 1950's we were using charcoal to power our grills. In 1950 the gas grill was put into action, and has really lead us to the way our grills are now.
  • TV Dinner

    TV Dinner

    TV dinners wee huge because in 1953 the Swanson brothers has 260 tons of leftover turkey. They figured out a way to package all that turkey, then sold it to 25 million people.
  • Juice Boxes

    Juice Boxes

    Juice boxes were very efficient because they took up less space in your fridge than a giant fruit juice container.
  • Shaped Cereal

    Shaped Cereal

    Shaped cereal like lucky charms and captain crunch really focused on children. It made eating breakfast a little more fun.
  • GMO

    GMO

    GMO's are a big deal because they're altering gene's. They used genetic engineering to introduce new traits and control traits better.