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It is important to blanch fresh vegetables before freezing them in order to denature the enzymes. By denaturing the enzymes, it prevents off-flavours, faded colours, musty hay-like odours and tough textures to occur during frozen storage.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 8y agoExcessive blanching will lead to soggy products before freezing. When defrosting, the product would be very soggy and might not be acceptable to the consumer.
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Why do you blanch food before freezing it?
Blanching is the scalding of vegetables in boiling water or steam. Blanching slows or stops the action of enzymes. Up until harvest time, enzymes cause vegetables to grow and mature. If vegetables are not blanched, or blanching is not long enough, the enzymes continue to be active during frozen storage causing off-colours, off-flavours and toughening. Blanching time is crucial and varies with the vegetable and size of the pieces to be frozen. Under-blanching speeds up the activity of enzymes and is worse than no blanching. Over-blanching causes loss of flavour, colour, vitamins and minerals.
Why is fresh food better for you than frozen food?
Fresh food still contains the majority of Vitamins.
Do fast food places cook fresh food or heat up frozen?
They heat up frozen food.
What is blanching point?
Blanching means putting the food in boiling water for 1 or 2 minutes.
Why should you buy fresh food instead of frozen?
We should buy fresh food instead of frozen because it requires 10 tomes more energy to produce and can increase the possibility of getting heart diseases by 0.2%
Can frozen coconut make you sick?
Well-I am no food expert but I have frozen packaged coconut (not fresh) and used it to make macaroons with no problem -don't know about fresh coconut though!
Which will save schools more money fresh foods or frozen?
Frozen foods cost less but are way waaayy too unhealthy. Their full of processed chemicals and pesticides and all this nasty stuff. And while fresh food does cost a little more, it will benefit the students health by a lot. Frozen food is cheaper, but unhealthy and fresh food is more in cost, but undeniably healthy
What is the only food bought fresh and never frozen canned cooked or processed?
Lettuce
Examples of perishable items in the food industry?
Perishable food is liable to perish,decay or spoilrapidly such as fresh meat,fresh and frozen seafood,ripe fruits,and vegetables.
How should you care for fresh purchased from a grocery?
Fresh purchased grocery food should immediately refrigerated, frozen, or stored. This would depend on the type of grocery food.
What is the difference between fresh and frozen food?
The difference is that fresh food has just been harvested - or has gotten to market as quickly as possible after harvest - without being frozen or cooked. It might be minimally processed - as in packaged salad greens. Frozen food is just that - has been frozen after harvest. Now, if you are referring to the nutritional differences, vegetables start to lose nutritional value after harvesting. Frozen vegetables are generally processed right after harvesting and retain a lot of the original value. Sometimes it can be hard to tell just how long it has been since the 'fresh' veggies were harvested that are in your grocer's produce aisle. Make sure you purchase your fresh vegetables from vendors who have a lot of sales that result in frequent turnover of stock.
How fresh are fast foods food?
Most food used at fast food restaurants is frozen, so it is not actually fresh. How long it is frozen before it is used is not known. After food are cooked, there is a hold time for how long it can be kept under the warming lights. Foods like lettuce that cannot be frozen usually contain preservatives to make it look fresher longer, but it is not known for how long.
