The Story of Frozen Food
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Food is delicious, not to mention kind of important. But food also goes bad, so humanshave invented many ways to preserve it to eat later or far from where it was harvested.Unfortunately, some of these methods require unhealthy chemicals or degrade the food'snutritional value. Luckily, freezing can preserve food with most of its nutrients, well, frozenin place!The important part is that most chemical and biological processes run slower at lower temperatures,which means that if you cool food a lot, enzymes and bacteria and fungi in the food get toocold to decompose it. That's why food lasts longer in the freezer than in the fridge thanon the counter.Freezing, however, wasn't always an easy task, especially before fridges were invented. It'sno...
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Food is delicious, not to mention kind of important. But food also goes bad, so humanshave invented many ways to preserve it to eat later or far from where it was harvested.Unfortunately, some of these methods require unhealthy chemicals or degrade the food'snutritional value. Luckily, freezing can preserve food with most of its nutrients, well, frozenin place!The important part is that most chemical and biological processes run slower at lower temperatures,which means that if you cool food a lot, enzymes and bacteria and fungi in the food get toocold to decompose it. That's why food lasts longer in the freezer than in the fridge thanon the counter.Freezing, however, wasn't always an easy task, especially before fridges were invented. It'sno...
