ABSTRACT
The chain of events in the “life” of a frozen food may
include the following processes: pretreatment (blanching
for vegetables, osmotic impregnation, and partial dehydra-
tion for fruits), freezing, storage and display in the frozen
state, tempering, cutting in the tempered state, and thaw-
ing. The words in italics represent the processes that are
always present; the other processes are optional.
