Business owners and other interested parties were recently given the chance to test and learn more about the state’s only “high-pressure processing” machine.
They gathered last week in Wahiawā during a food summit at Leeward Community College’s Value-Added Product Development Center, where the machine is housed.
“We are especially interested over here at the HPP summit and how we can extend the shelf life of a lot of our products because what we try and do is make clean-label items, things that don’t have a lot of preservatives inside, or we’re trying to not use phosphate diacetate,” said Micah Richards, owner of Mauka Meats, at the summit…