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About National Frozen Food Month

March is National Frozen Food Month sponsored by the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association.

Clarence Birdseye is credited with inventing in 1924 the quick freezing method, which produces the type of frozen foods that we know today.

Prior to frozen foods, people had to rely on canned or salted foods to keep supplies fresh for long periods of time, (unless they lived in very cold climates where freezing was possible in the winter months). This meant that anything perishable had to be bought close to or near the time it was to be cooked. That’s something that is difficult to imagine today.

What made Birdseye’s method of freezing so revolutionary is that it preserved the flavor and the quality of the food through flash freezing. Rather than take hours, which often resulted in freezer burn, ice crystals and other contaminates to the quality of the food, flash freezing captured the full flavor and nutrition. The food tasted almost as good months later if flash frozen as it would have cooked on that day.

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