{"id":776,"date":"2004-03-04T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/?p=776"},"modified":"2017-09-05T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:57:15","slug":"microwaves-improve-processed-food-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/2004\/03\/04\/microwaves-improve-processed-food-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwaves improve processed food quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SSC-Natick Press Release<\/em> \u00a0| \u00a0March 2004<\/p>\n<p>Microwave energy, long used in homes to cook or reheat food, is gaining momentum in the United States as a method for processing more palatable shelf-stable foods for the military and commercial market.<\/p>\n<p>Already successfully used overseas as an alternative to frozen or refrigerated packaged foods, a partnership between the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass.; Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Wash.; and several food processing, equipment and packaging companies to process food through a microwave sterilization system is moving ahead with a fresh influx of federal and private sector funding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natick.army.mil\/about\/pao\/2004\/04-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">[continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natick.army.mil\/about\/pao\/2004\/04-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Microwaves improve processed food quality<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>SSC-Natick Press Release<\/em> \u00a0| \u00a0March 2004<\/p>\n<p>Microwave energy, long used in homes to cook or reheat food, is gaining momentum in the United States as a method for processing more palatable shelf-stable foods for the military and commercial market.<\/p>\n<p>Already successfully used overseas as an alternative to frozen or refrigerated packaged foods, a partnership between the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass.; Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Wash.; and several food processing, equipment and packaging companies to process food through a microwave sterilization system is moving ahead with a fresh influx of federal and private sector &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/2004\/03\/04\/microwaves-improve-processed-food-quality\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[415,430],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}