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retort food

noun

Etymology

Calque of Japanese レトルト食品 (retoruto shokuhin), or calque of Korean 레토르트 식품(食品) (retoreuteu sikpum).

  1. derived from レトルト食品

Definitions

  1. Foodstuff that has undergone retort sterilization.

    • Shiseido Co., the parent firm, is studying the feasibility of advancing into the "retort food" field for raising the profitability of Shiseido Parlor.
    • When retort food is heated in the retort, sterilization racks are used to guarantee equal exposure of each container to the heating medium.
    • There is a strong demand for retort food from consumers as emergency food because of their long shelf life and ease of consumption;

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retort food. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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