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retort food en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of Japanese レトルト食品 (retoruto shokuhin), or calque of Korean 레토르트 식품(食品) (retoreuteu sikpum).

Meanings

1. (Japan, South-Korea, countable, especially, uncountable) Foodstuff that has undergone retort sterilization.
   • Shiseido Co., the parent firm, is studying the feasibility of advancing into the "retort food" field for raising the profitability of Shiseido Parlor. 1977, The Oriental Economist:
   • There is a strong demand for retort food from consumers as emergency food because of their long shelf life and ease of consumption; 2014, Ruri Ito, Mika Fukuoka, Naoko Hamada-Sato, “Innovative food processing technology using ohmic heating and aseptic packaging for meat”, in Meat Science, →DOI:
   • Korean college students mainly consumed frozen food, retort food, and kimbap in convenience stores. 1998 July 30, Soo-Jae Moon, Hye-June Yoon, Jung-Hyun Kim, Yang-Ja Lee, “A Study on the Perception and Consumption Pattern of Convenience Foods by Korean College Students”, in Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture 한국식생활문화학회지:
   • When retort food is heated in the retort, sterilization racks are used to guarantee equal exposure of each container to the heating medium. 1990, Takashi Kadoya, editor, Food Packaging, Academic Press:

Forms

Translations (2)

ko 레토르트 식품 (foodstuff that has undergone retort sterilization) · ja レトルト食品 (foodstuff that has undergone retort sterilization)