WordNet
n. food preserved by freezing [syn: frozen foods]
Wikipedia
Freezing food preserves it from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. Since early times, farmers, fishermen, and trappers have preserved their grains and produce in unheated buildings during the winter season. Freezing food slows down decomposition by turning residual moisture into ice, inhibiting the growth of most bacterial species. In the food commodity industry, there are two processes: mechanical and cryogenic (or flash freezing). The freezing kinetics is important to preserve the food quality and texture. Quicker freezing generates smaller ice crystals and maintains cellular structure. Cryogenic freezing is the quickest freezing technology available due to the ultra low liquid nitrogen temperature .
Preserving food in domestic kitchens during the 20th and 21st centuries is achieved using household freezers. Accepted advice to householders was to freeze food on the day of purchase. An initiative by a supermarket group in 2012 (backed by the UK's Waste & Resources Action Programme) promotes advising the freezing of food "as soon as possible up to the product's 'use by' date". The Food Standards Agency was reported as supporting the change, providing the food had been stored correctly up to that time.
Usage examples of "frozen food".
The aproned assistant brought him his meals at regular intervals: more frozen food from the freezer and, as time went on, unfamiliar stuff that the Cygnans evidently had learned to synthesize.
At the frozen food section she chose a few TV dinners and a box of Weight Watchers chocolate fudge bars.
They had their stocks of frozen food, the chicks, lambs and calves to start anew the herds and flocks, home furnishings -- now painfully reduced -- and the corn filling most of all the cars.
They had their stocks of frozen food, the chicks, lambs and calves to start anew the herds and flocks, home furnishings-now painfully reduced-and the corn filling most of all the cars.
Back here the galley has been expanded into a complete kitchen with hibachi and radar oven, and beyond it a frozen food locker that could feed us for five years if need be.
He got out and started helping her, automatically, and only gradually realized that he was carrying bag after bag of frozen food.