Causes of Food Spoilage:
The preservation of food is described like the preservation of palatability and nutritive worth of food preventing the natural spoilage w. r. t. time. The spoilage of the food might begin within the food or might be by an external agency however in most of the cases, it is the influence of both combined simultaneously.
Before going to learn the preservation of food, it is essential to study the spoilage agents in detail that are responsible for the devastation of food.
The spoilage agents are basically divided into two major groups
(1) Enzymes
(2) Micro-organisms