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O*NET detailed work activityResearch methods to improve food products
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Part of Research technology designs or applications, under the O*NET work activity group Getting Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 6 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Study methods to improve aspects of foods, such as chemical composition, flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, and convenience.
- Provide assistance to food scientists or technologists in research and development, production technology, or quality control.
- Study the structure and composition of food or the changes foods undergo in storage and processing.
- Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods, using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and other sciences.
- Seek substitutes for harmful or undesirable additives, such as nitrites.
- Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.