What is flash-frozen?

Flash-frozen is when food gets super cold really fast, almost like it’s jumping into a freezer instead of slowly cooling down.

Imagine you’re eating an ice cream cone on a hot day. If the ice cream melts slowly, it’s not as fun. But if it falls into a giant freezer in one second, it stays nice and frozen, just like when you put your juice box in the freezer for a few minutes and it turns solid!

When food is flash-frozen, it’s usually put into a freezer that’s super cold, sometimes colder than the regular freezer at home. This happens so fast that the water inside the food doesn’t have time to form big ice crystals. That means the food stays soft and juicy when you thaw it later, kind of like how your cookie dough feels after it goes in the oven.

If food freezes slowly, like in a regular freezer, the ice crystals can grow bigger and make the texture harder or mushy. But with flash-freezing, the food keeps its fresh taste and soft feel, just like when you eat a juicy apple instead of a dried one.