Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

retort processing

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables: re-tort pro-cess-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process of heating food to a high temperature under pressure after it has been sealed in packaging.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The rotary retort processing method can be used for liquid, semiviscous, or particulate foods and has many advantages compared to the still retort processing method ."
"To safely process these types of flexible packages, careful control of overriding air pressure is needed during retort processing, and pure saturated steam, alone, cannot be used as the heat exchange medium."
"The primary objective of heat penetration measurements is to obtain an accurate recording of the product termperature at the can cold spot over time while the container is being treated under a controlled set of retort processing conditions."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does retort processing mean?: The process of heating food to a high temperature under pressure after it has been sealed in packaging.

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