The advantages of a “World with Weighing” are countless. And they reveal themselves on the most varied industries, including the food production, where scales have essential functions for the food preparation and packaging. Find out the role of scales on food production!
Weighing has a role way more important in our life’s than what may seem at first sight. Scales are in our houses, medical offices, supermarkets and butcheries and the most varied industries, where they are fundamental to quality control of equipment and even some of the food we consume.
So, allied to the campaign “World with Weighing” from CECIP, the European Weighing Association of which we are part, Balanças Marques will explain what’s the role of scales on the specific case of food production:
- Scales ensure the flavor consistency on food.
You know that cookie recipe that you must strictly follow to always get that crunchy and tasty result? On the food industry it’s the same thing. To obtain homogeneous and flavor consistent food, the food producers follow the steps and quantities from a recipe.
That’s where the weighing comes in, performing a leading role. Many times integrated in their own production lines, scales measure the ingredients’ weight according to the recipe and ensure the flavor’s consistency on the food you buy at the supermarket shelves.
- Scales ensure the precision on the food labels.
Each package of processed food has a label that contains the ingredients used in the preparation and even a nutritional chart with the most relevant information for our diet and health.
And, once more, weighing presents an essential role to fulfill this packed food requirement. It is also from the weight and scales that the food production industry ensures the precision of the data showed on the food labels.
- Scales attest the weight of each food package.
When you buy a bag of pre-packaged grapes, you can trust that it brings, more or less accurately, the indicated weight on the package.
During the packaging process, weighing comes, once more, to perform a fundamental role, this time attesting the weight of each package. Which, in one hand, protects the consumer from paying more and, on the other hand, protects the producer from losing profit while exceeding the quantity of product per package.
After discovering all this, you’ll never see weighing the same way. Beyond the usual functions we award them, scales are in the backstage of various areas of our lives, playing a leading role for the quality on the production of our food and the protection of our rights as consumers.
