Through an extensive literature review, including scientific publications and organizational reports of food processing companies, our main goal in this paper is to identify the trajectory of the food industry and processing technology from its birth in the nineteenth century to the present time. In this paper, the following questions are addressed: How have we got here? And where are we going? In essence, this review perceives three main paradigm shifts in the food industry, supported by four main knowledge development cycles of Food Science and Technology. Furthermore, this paper also surmises that we are now at the most challenging moment considering the two centuries of history of the food industry. Despite an unquestionable technological development, while ensuring the scale production of microbiologically safe, nutritious, and appealing foods, the industry has apparently not effectively engaged its stakeholders. Particularly, the industry needs to improve its approach towards the consumer. The contemporary challenging situation outside the box urges the development of new processes and technologies considering present-day consumption drivers associated with processed food. This is important for the industry to reinvent itself so as to understand that more than creating textures, the opportunity is also to preserve and enhance attributes derived from the raw material and from the relationships established throughout the value chain in which it operates.

通过广泛的文献综述，包括科学出版物和食品加工公司的组织报告，我们的主要目标是确定食品工业和加工技术从其诞生到19世纪的轨迹。在本文中，解决了以下问题：我们如何到达这里？我们要去哪里？从本质上讲，本综述从食品科学和技术的四个主要知识开发周期为依据，了解了食品行业的三个主要范式转变。此外，本文还假设考虑到食品工业两个世纪的历史，我们现在正处于最具挑战性的时刻。尽管技术发展毫无疑问，但在确保微生物安全，营养丰富的大规模生产，和吸引人的食品，该行业显然没有有效地与其利益相关者互动。特别地，该行业需要改进其针对消费者的方法。考虑到当今框框外的挑战性形势，考虑到当今与加工食品相关的消费驱动因素，敦促开发新的工艺和技术。这对于行业重塑自我很重要，以便了解除了创建纹理外，机会还在于保留和增强从原材料以及在其运营的整个价值链中建立的关系中获得的属性。考虑到当今框框外的挑战性形势，考虑到当今与加工食品相关的消费驱动因素，敦促开发新的工艺和技术。这对于行业重塑自我很重要，以便了解除了创建纹理外，机会还在于保留和增强从原材料以及在其运营的整个价值链中建立的关系中获得的属性。考虑到当今框框外的挑战性形势，考虑到当今与加工食品相关的消费驱动因素，敦促开发新的工艺和技术。这对于行业重塑自我很重要，以便了解除了创建纹理外，机会还在于保留和增强从原材料以及在其运营的整个价值链中建立的关系中获得的属性。