| In today's world, only a very small percentage of | | | | than unfrozen food. It has been observed that a |
| people grow their own food. Indeed, in some parts of | | | | considerable portion of certain nutrients, especially |
| the world, less than 5% of all people are involved in | | | | vitamin C and carotene get damaged during the |
| agriculture. And even for those who are involved in | | | | freezing process, so that frozen food is poorer in |
| agriculture, it is highly unlikely that they would be in a | | | | these nutrients than food that is not frozen. Vitamin B1 |
| position to grow all the foods they need. In most cases | | | | and B2 are other nutrients that may also get lost |
| then, people end up consuming foods produced very | | | | during the freezing process. |
| far away from where they are. And to ensure that | | | | 3. You may want to know that frozen food is healthier |
| the food doesn't end up being spoilt on the way, | | | | than food that is preserved through the use many |
| between where it is produced and where it is | | | | other methods (for instance preservatives), the loss of |
| consumed, it becomes necessary to preserve it, | | | | some nutrients that takes place during freezing |
| through among other methods, freezing - so that we | | | | notwithstanding. The idea behind using preservatives is |
| end up with frozen food. | | | | to keep food from being invaded by micro-organisms. |
| Here, then, are five interesting facts about frozen | | | | But freezing achieves the same objective, so that |
| foods that you may want to know. | | | | frozen food doesn't have to be laden with |
| 1. That frozen food is not a new concept. Many of us | | | | preservatives. In the final analysis, the likely harm from |
| imagine that freezing of food became a possibility with | | | | use of some preservatives is much worse than the |
| the invention of the refrigerator. Nothing could be | | | | loss of nutritional value that freezing causes; for this |
| further from the truth, because for thousands of years | | | | loss of nutritional value is something that can be made |
| before the invention of the machine we know as the | | | | up for. |
| refrigerator, people had been consuming food that | | | | 4. That frozen food, contrary to what many of us |
| was frozen. It was one of the ways through which | | | | imagine, doesn't have to be tasteless. Sure, freezing |
| people in the parts of the world beset with long | | | | food can cause some loss of delicacy. But if you |
| winters could store the food they needed to take | | | | make use of a stabilizer when putting the food into the |
| them through the season. Of course, refrigeration (as | | | | freezer, you can conserve the taste of that food, so |
| we know it today) is a fairly young concept; originating | | | | that it tastes 'natural' when it is finally taken out of the |
| from the 1930s - making it less than a century old. | | | | freezer for consumption. |
| 2. That frozen food is typically poorer in some nutrients | | | | |