Frozen Food Day 2025 is on Thursday, March 6, 2025: frozen foods keep nutriance?

Thursday, March 6, 2025 is Frozen Food Day 2025.

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While you could expect Frozen Food Day to be the creation of a manufacturer of frozen food, it was really ushered in by US Head of state Ronald Reagan in 1984! Meals icy slowly is not extremely tasty when thawed, however 'flash' iced up meals-- the procedure of freezing food quickly-- keeps the food as fresh and delicious as it was when it was first iced up. The flash freezing procedure was developed by none aside from Clarence Birdseye, influenced by seeing Inuit eating thawed out fish which had been iced up months earlier. You might identify the Birdseye name from the icy meals area!

Nowadays frozen food is a lifeline to lots of active chefs, whether it is used for sure active ingredients, such as icy veggies or the entire dish. We all have days when we're wheelsed and having a square meal in the freezer is so much less complicated than in fact having to cook!

Freezing has very little effect on the nutrient content of foods. Some fruits and vegetables are blanched (immersed in boiling water for a short period) before freezing to inactivate enzymes and yeasts that would continue to cause food spoilage, even in the freezer. This process can cause some of the vitamin C (15 to 20%) to be lost. In spite of these losses, vegetables and fruits are frozen in peak condition soon after harvesting and are often higher in nutrients than their "fresh" counterparts. Harvested produce can sometimes take many days to be sorted, transported and distributed to stores. During this time, vitamins and minerals can be slowly lost from the food. Fresh soft fruits and green vegetables can lose as much as 15% of their vitamin C content daily when kept at room temperature.

There are almost no vitamin and mineral loses from frozen meats, fish and poultry because protein, vitamins A and D and minerals are not affected by freezing. During the defrosting process, there is a loss of liquid containing water-soluble vitamins and mineral salts, which will be lost in the cooking process if this liquid is not recovered.

Frozen food?

It depends on how densely the freezer is packed and whether you open it.

The more full the freezer is, the more the frozen food will keep itself cold. It's like a giant cooler chest filled with frozen blocks. Food could stay frozen for several days. Just don't open it.