BIO OM.CO.,LTD. Food biotechnology is a term of covering a vast variety of processes for using living organisms—such as plants, animals, microbes, or any part of these organisms—to develop new or improved food products with increased nutritional value, medicinal properties, enhanced taste and esthetic appeal. Modern food biotechnology techniques such as genetic engineering that refers to the direct manipulation of an organism’s DNA provide the newer forms that offer a faster and more precise means to develop food products.