The Shaka Sterilization System is a major and timely breakthrough in the food technology. For the first time, in-container sterilization can be completed in a few minutes to allow the production of fresher, better tasting long shelf life ambient foods. Food quality is comparable with pasteurized foods and with aseptic processed foods over a wide range of products.

Process and capital costs are lower than for most other sterilization processes.

Other retorting processes are much slower and subject the food to a long exposure to heat, producing discoloration and that over-cooked note found in many canned and bottled foods.