Yield

How it is used

A key cost figure for production managers. People talk about cheese yield from milk, cooking yield of meat, juice yield from fruit and overall line yield. 'Yield' is also a verb: 100 kg of olives yields about 15–20 kg of oil. Losses lower the yield.

Example sentences

1. Our cheese yield dropped because the milk had less protein in summer.

2. The new peeler improved the yield of the potato line by 4 percent.

Common collocations

• cheese yield
• cooking yield
• improve yield
• yield loss
• overall yield

Related terms

• raw materialA basic material, such as milk, flour, fruit or meat, that a factory receives and processes to make its products.
• production lineA connected series of machines and work stations through which a product moves step by step from raw material to packed finished goods.
• food processingThe methods that turn raw agricultural products into foods that are safer, last longer, are easier to use or are more appealing, from washing and cutting to cooking and packing.
• batchA quantity of product made at one time, under the same conditions and from the same materials, so that it can be identified and traced as one unit.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• yield · Chemical Engineering
• yield · Agriculture
• yield · Finance & Banking
• yield · Investing & the Stock Market
• yield · Culinary Arts & Cooking

More terms: Food Processing

• fermentation
• homogenization
• extrusion
• blanching
• evaporation
• spray drying
• heat exchanger
• clean-in-place