Staying Chill with Organic Food

If you pick up a conventionally grown food item at a grocery store and an identical organic item, you will most likely notice the organic food will decay faster. This has been a bit of a dilemma when it comes to shipping, storing, and enticing consumers to buy more foods that are organic. Thankfully, researchers have been faithfully toiling away to discover new ways to preserve organic foods in such a way as to keep their fresh qualities. It may be time for organic food to chill.

Preserving Freshness

The term “fresh” can mean many things to many people. To some picking an old shirt up for a sniff test may determine freshness while for others fresh food may mean straight from the dirt to the table. Nevertheless, how does science determine what is fresh? What does this really mean and how can we preserve freshness? Shortly after you pick a vegetable or fruit that ripe and undeniably fresh produce begins to decay. Arguably, as soon as it had reached full maturity and ripeness it had started the breaking down process. As with any food item, the key concern at this point becomes preservation. Without changing the makeup of the food itself, it can be hard to find way to preserve freshness. Science may have found a key to unlocking the secret to finding balance to retaining freshness longer.

Salmon is Cool

The chemical-free technology that researchers have developed is called “superchilling”. They first have tried it with salmon. Undoubtedly, you have seen in the super market the labels reading “fresh frozen” on fish packaging. Usually this implies the fish was frozen when it was still fresh – or still on board the ship. However, this doesn’t mean the fish is really fresh because when you freeze something to the deeply low degree this calls for it can lose vital nutrients from frost damage. A happy in between place is found with superchilling. This process calls for finding that happy medium between freezing and cooling the fish down enough to stop the decay process and any natural bacteria growth.

Great news, No Chemicals!

That’s right the process doesn’t call for ay chemicals. Right now, the process is still being researched to find out how much, if any, nutrients maybe lost and for how long the fish remains in this fresh state. The hope is then to apply this technology to other organic food products including produce! This could revolutionize the organic market once it is perfected. Imagine actual fresh fish lasting a month! We can only hope that this work continues and we can see an increased ability to lengthen food freshness within the organic community.

 Applications & Resources

• Check out Science Daily for more on how science is helping the organic community too

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