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A cheesemaker adds salt to cheese curds at a dairy.
Pasteurization of Milk
frozen meals
harvested tomatoes
The video thumbnail image shows a collage of a Campbell's condensed soup can, a bowl of tomato soup, a grilled cheese sandwhich, and a 1950s housewife spooning soup into a pot.
How bacteria growth affects food spoilage and diseases
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Cadbury, George
George Cadbury
British businessman
Philip Danforth Armour
Philip Danforth Armour
American entrepreneur
Ralph Helstein
American labor leader
Candler
Asa Griggs Candler
American manufacturer
Jean Étienne de Boré
American agriculturalist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist

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Close-up of limes. (citrus fruit; food)
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Slices of lemon pie topped with meringue.
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