Fresh foods keep their color and flavor for only a short time. You have
to eat them soon after they are bought.
Frozen food
Is your piece of apple pie homemade, or did it come frozen? Sometimes
it’s hard to tell. Frozen foods and fresh foods can look and taste
almost the same.
Freezing is a good way to preserve (prih [zuhrv),]{.smallcaps} or save,
most foods. It keeps the foods from spoiling, and it keeps their color
and flavor from changing. So foods that are frozen don’t have to be used
right away. They can be kept until you need them.
Foods look and taste better if they are frozen very fast. So frozen
foods are prepared in a special way. Usually they are sealed in packages
or placed on special trays. Then they are loaded into a huge, extra-cold
freezer. Cold air or a cold gas blows over the
Frozen foods will look and taste much like fresh foods when they are
cooked —even after weeks or months in the freezer.
foods and freezes them very quickly, so that the flavor doesn’t change.
Or, if the food is in cans, it is given a bath in a very cold liquid to
make it freeze.
Frozen foods come in handy. Stores can keep them for a long time—so
you can buy frozen fruits and vegetables all year round. And frozen
foods make cooking easier and quicker, because some of the work has been
done for you. A can of frozen orange juice is already squeezed from the
oranges, so all you do is the mixing. And a frozen apple pie is already
put together, so you only bake it.
Many homemade foods can be frozen, too, if they are tightly sealed or
wrapped. This way, people can cook a number of special dishes when they
have time, and then enjoy them later.
