retort food

retort food noun: foodstuff that has undergone retort sterilization.

Noun

retort food (countable and uncountable, plural retort foods)

(Japan, South-Korea, especially) 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.1977, The Oriental Economist
- When retort food is heated in the retort, sterilization racks are used to guarantee equal exposure of each container to the heating medium.1990, Takashi Kadoya, editor, Food Packaging, Academic Press

There is a strong demand for retort food from consumers as emergency food because of their long shelf life and ease of consumption;2014, Ruri Ito, Mika Fukuoka, Naoko Hamada-Sato, “Innovative food processing technology using ohmic heating and aseptic packaging for...
Korean college students mainly consumed frozen food, retort food, and kimbap in convenience stores.1998 July 30, Soo-Jae Moon, Hye-June Yoon, Jung-Hyun Kim, Yang-Ja Lee, “A Study on the Perception and Consumption Pattern of Convenience...

plural	retort foods

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

What does retort food mean?: Retort food means foodstuff that has undergone retort sterilization.
How do you use retort food in a sentence?: There is a strong demand for retort food from consumers as emergency food because of their long shelf life and ease of consumption;
What part of speech is retort food?: Retort food is a noun.
What is the plural of retort food?: The plural of retort food is retort foods.

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