Humans process some foods by adding chemicals to reduce bacterial growth, contain the production of toxins, and improve taste. This allows foods to be edible for longer periods of time. Which best describes the advantage of food processing?

Reduction of bacterial growth

Explanation:

The major advantage of food processing by addition of chemicals is to reduce the bacterial growth which makes the food to get spoilt after a period of time, but with food processing, the growth of the bacteria is reduced which lets it go quite a long time preserved without spoiling.

protist eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi ("misfits")

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