In touch with your market: fruit and vegetables
Fruit and vegetables are tasty and healthy – but they are a delicate matter. And for this reason you should not leave to chance the careful temperature control and gentle product handling in the chilling or freezing processing lines of these sensitive foodstuffs. GEA Refrigeration Technologies makes sure that your foods will stay at the very top of the consumer’s shopping list, and that they will leave behind no bitter taste. After all: energy efficiency and environmentally friendly refrigerants enjoy absolute top priority with us.
It is especially deep-frozen food that makes it easy as pie to eat healthily and with great variety without great specialist knowledge, sophisticated nutritional plans, or calendars of the season. Whether it’s crunchy green peas in summer or radiantly red raspberries in winter: the consumer is awaited during every season by a tempting diversity of fruit and vegetables that keep their freshness, color, flavor, shape, and vitamin content. In addition, frozen foods make it easier for the growing number of us with allergies and food intolerances to adjust our diet to personal needs. Nutrition scientists can heartily recommend frozen foods. Countless studies have for many years proven that properly frozen vegetables are not only equivalent to their fresh counterparts with respect to vitamin content: it has indeed been evidenced that frozen vegetables in any case are superior to those foods that have been stored for days in refrigerators or that have been underway for long periods.
Deep-frozen foods also represent hygienically flawless products for the consumer, since microorganisms such as bacteria need above-zero temperatures to grow and proliferate. But it’s not only science that gives us the green light here. Even dyed-in-the-wool gourmets and star cooks increasingly go to the freezer area of the supermarket: they, too, value the freshness, availability, and the good taste of frozen fruit and vegetables. In the majority of households, to be sure, cooking and eating have by now considerably evolved. After a long and strenuous day at work, consumers now above all expect the preparation of a meal to be quick and easy. Health still remains high in their priorities, however.
With chilling and freezing systems by GEA Refrigeration Technologies, you can be sure that all hygienic standards are met and that the cooling chain remains a simple matter from the organizational viewpoint.
Available references
|