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Identifying nutrients is one thing. Making sure you get them into your body is another. What’s essential is keeping nutritious food nutritious by preserving and protecting its components.

Some people see the term food processing as a nutritional dirty word, or two words. They’re wrong. Without food processing and preservatives, you and I would still be forced to gather or kill our food each morning and down it fast before it spoiled. For more about which processing and preservative techniques produce the safest, most nutritious — and yes, delicious — dinners, check out Part 4.

Considering how vital food preservation can be, you may want to think about when you last heard a rousing cheer for the anonymous cook who first noticed that salting or pickling food could extend food’s shelf life. Or for the guys who invented the refrigeration and freezing techniques that slow food’s natural tendency to spoil.

Or for Louis Pasteur, the man who made it absolutely clear that heating food to boiling kills bugs (microorganisms) that might otherwise cause food poisoning. So give them a hand, right here.