Question

A shipment of frozen fish arrives at your food establishment. You see that the outside bottoms of the shipping cartons have too much ice and the fish fillets held within the cartons have brown edges. These are signs of:_______.a. thawing and refreezing. b. safe, hihg quality seaood. c. seafood that has been blast chilled.

Answer 1

A. Thawing and freezing.

Explanation: Thawing is a term applied in the food industry to mean the processes used to cause a frozen material to change from a solid state to a liquid state.

Freezing is the term used to describe the processes involved in trying to cause a liquid material to change state from a liquid to a solid state.

BOTH PROCESSES HAVE GREAT IMPORTANCE IN THE STORAGE AND HANDLING OF FOOD PRODUCTS.

Answer 2

Answer:A. Thawing and refreezing

Explanation:Once food is thawed in the refrigerator, it is safe to refreeze it without cooking, although there may be a loss of quality due to the moisture lost through thawing. After cooking raw foods which were previously frozen, it is safe to freeze the cooked foods.