I thought it would be just loads of fun to focus our attention today on frequently asked questions about frozen foods. But first, a little history.
Although the practice of preserving food by freezing can be traced back to 1626, it wasn’t exactly practical. Frozen foods looked bad, tasted worse and were more apt than not to make people deathly ill. Thank goodness for Clarence Birdseye, who in 1926 invented and developed a freezing process that not only preserved food safely but also preserved its taste and appearance.
Are fresh vegetables more nutritious than frozen?
The International Food Information Council tells us that the nutritional value of frozen vegetables is virtually identical to fresh produce. In fact, frozen has better nutritional value than fresh, if that “fresh” produce has been sitting in the refrigerator for a long time….