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Food Preservation Explained

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Watch this video about food preservation on HowStuffWorks. This segment describes the history of food preservation and how different groups solved the problem of supplying food over long trips. The Food Preservation segment ends with a description of early food packaging on NASA space trips. Learn how food preservation works in this video from NASA Destination Tomorrow.

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