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Products commonly frozen with IQF technologies are typically smaller pieces of food, and can include berries, fruits and vegetables both diced or sliced, seafood such as shrimp and small fish, meat, poultry, pasta, cheese and grains. [1] Products that have been subjected to IQF are referred to as individually quick frozen.
Direct contact freezing puts the product directly in contact with the refrigerant, while indirect contact freezing uses a plate in between. Plate freezing is the most common form of contact freezing. Food is put between cold metal plates and then lightly pressed to maintain contact.
Willamette Valley Fruit Company, LLC began in 1999 processing local fruits and berries in the Salem area. The company was founded by three local farming families. Operations began in the summer of 1999 with limited production capabilities for wet-pack products in pails and drums from fruit produced by a small number of growers in the area.
Kiwi berries are packed with vitamins, fiber, magnesium, potassium and antioxidants, like most of the berries on this list. One serving boasts five times the vitamin C of an orange , as well as 2 ...
Freeze-drying is used extensively to preserve insects for the purposes of consumption. Whole freeze-dried insects are sold as exotic pet food, bird feed, fish bait, and increasingly for human consumption. [28] [29] Powdered freeze-dried insects are used as a protein base in animal feeds, and in some markets, as a nutritional supplement for ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created in the 1860s. By the 1890s, the USDA was beginning to become involved in livestock inspections. [5] In 1905, the U.S. government had a call to action when Upton Sinclair polemic [6] against unsanitary working conditions at the expansive Chicago stockyards was published as a magazine serial.
Traditional dried fruits such as raisins, figs, dates, apricots, and apples have been a staple of Mediterranean diets for millennia. This is due partly to their early cultivation in the Middle Eastern region known as the Fertile Crescent, made up of parts of modern Iran, Iraq, southwest Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and northern Egypt.
Blueberries are sold fresh or are processed as individually quick frozen fruit, purée, juice, or dried or infused berries. These may then be used in a variety of consumer goods, such as jellies , jams , pies , muffins , snack foods, pancakes, or as an additive to breakfast cereals .