Food Some cultures consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare. Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons. Vegetarians choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees. Vegans do not consume any foods that are or contain ingredients from an animal source. Adulteration is a legal term meaning that a food product fails to meet the legal standards. One
German Institute of Food Technologies where the value of the information becomes most visible. Many production plants are still not yet operating to their performance capabilities. There are many possibilities for process analysis to further improve the quality achieved so far. The "Lower Saxonian competency center for the food industry" (NieKE) is a network of cooperation between the German Institute of Food Technologies, "The Institute of Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture" (ISPA) of the University of Vechta, DIALOG - "The Center for Transfer of Information and Technology" at the University of Oldenburg, "the Competency Center Functional Food" (KKF) and "The Research