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Nicolas Appert

French inventor who pioneered airtight food preservation techniques

Did you know?He spent over a decade perfecting his method using glass jars before winning a cash prize offered by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Nicolas Appert (17 November 1749 – 1 June 1841) was a French confectioner and inventor who, in the early 19th century, invented airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of food science", described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers".

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