Advanced technology helps bring Vietnamese food to world
The High Pressure Processing (HPP) technology will help bring the original flavour of Vietnamese traditional dishes like “pho” or “bun bo Hue” (Hue-styled noodle soup with beef) to foreign countries, said Lam Dao Hung, Chairman of Minh Hung Group.
Bowls of "pho", a traditional dish of Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The High Pressure Processing (HPP) technology willhelp bring the original flavour of Vietnamese traditional dishes like “pho” or “bunbo Hue” (Hue-styled noodle soup with beef) to foreign countries, said Lam DaoHung, Chairman of Minh Hung Group.
On the sidelines of a ceremony to ink the minutes on the construction of a HPPprocessing plant in Vietnam between the Minh Hung Group, Canada’s MHEnvironGroup and the US’s Avure Technologies, Hung said that HPP is a significantbreakthrough which changes all concepts of food preservation and processing.
“We want to deploy HPP technology to keep food taste, texture and quality. Inthe coming time, Minh Hung Group will work with its partners to sell processedpho in foreign markets like North America and the EU”, he noted.
According to Tom Woodward, Vice President of Sales at Avure Technologies, HPPis a cold pasteurisation technique by which products, already sealed in itsfinal package, are subjected to a high level of isostatic pressure transmittedby water. It helps eliminate food spoilage microorganisms like Listeriamonocytogenes, E.coli and Salmonella.
The construction on the HPP food processing plant will begin in September 2018in Ben Luc district, the Mekong Delta province of Long An. The 22 million USDproject will become operational after nine months.
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Bowls of "pho", a traditional dish of Vietnam (Photo: VNA) 
