Modern food industries employ either mechanical or cryogenic methods for freezing products.
Brian Young of the BFFF says moving upmarket may help the frozen market further, telling us in recent years there's been a rise in "premium frozen product development, such as frozen herbs and risotto mixes", but it remains to be seen whether this will convince the sceptics and see frozen food fully embraced as tantamount to fresh.
This study aimed to model an innovative process of pulsed microwave assisted freezing (MAF), which was expected to improve frozen product quality.
Frozen products in the recall include Archer Farms mini beef burritos, pulled-pork burritos and chicken burritos.
Bernard Matthews agreed to temporarily suspend movements of frozen products containing Hungarian meat for 48 hours, it said in a statement.
Heinz, meanwhile, has a United States-focused frozen products business and a global ketchup, sauces and babyfood business.
When it comes to frozen vegetables and fruit, they count towards your five-a-day just as effectively, with the British Nutrition Foundation recommending frozen products.
Carlota Medus, an epidemiologist for the Minnesota Department of Health, said the outbreak wasn't the first time frozen products were linked to salmonella poisoning.
But modern austerity cooks insist that frozen products are perfectly valid ingredients – poverty campaigner and cookbook author Jack Monroe loves frozen broccoli, spinach and green beans, while Jamie Oliver has long championed frozen food (although we should note that he has promoted Young's frozen fish since 2011).
Rosenfeld started her career at an advertising agency and then in 1981 joined the marketing department of General Foods Corporation, a company with a long line of packaged and frozen products, ranging from Kool-Aid fruit-flavoured beverages to Maxwell House coffee to Oscar Mayer meats.
