Why Americans Love Frozen Food

[@Tanukitty2011]

I don’t think we love frozen food, but I think some things such as frozen berries are better than the ones from the produce aisle which are often moldy or overripe.

[@OrangeFluffyCat]

So true

[@mathgasm8484]

They freeze them at peak ripeness unlike others that maybe picked not as ripe.

[@btudrus]

those moldy are moldy because these WERE frozen...

[@MrGoalie2012]

@@btudrus no its because fresh produce has a vastly shorter shelf life

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

So true!

[@LifeBindeR222]

We don't love it. It's just cheap, convenient and lasts longer.

[@Sacto1654]

And surprisingly nutrious, despite what some people say. The problem with fresh food is that they will lose their nutritonal value (and start spoiling) over time even if you use a circa 38° F. refrigerator, while frozen food will not spoil over a lot longer period of time if kept under 32° F.

[@cedricmasse-leblanc6414]

I think the convenient part is very important: Most working adults either don't have the time, mental energy or both to cook a full meal, store the leftovers and clean the dishes afterwards.

[@FloridaMan69.]

and that's why I love it

[@coucoubrandy1079]

I defrost my veggies in the microwave and practical. And cheaper because gas has gone up. Also, with all the recipes that you find on KZbin you have no excuses to not have healthy meals. I sometimes buy UPFs foods. But I find that it's much more tasty to do it yourself. I hope that Americans eat more veggies than meat ! Bon appétit!

[@azrrrrrrrr]

but same is true in europe yet here barely anyone buys frozen food? I guess main reasons for that are that in Europe our stores are much closer to us and fresh food(vegetables) is cheaper than USA?

[@maxwellvandenberg2977]

It's because grocery stores are far away due to terrible zoning and city planning, so many people cannot just walk to the store to get fresh food, and most people do not want to drive to get fresh food every day

[@whoisthatkidd2212]

This. When I was in japan I could just walk across the (very narrow and safe) street and grab what I wanted in 5 mins and if I needed more stuff I just used a handcart. In the US a run to the grocery store can take 30 mins combined with stress of driving so its inconvienient. The landscape is now a food desert.

[@ch1ll1add.25]

@@whoisthatkidd2212 imagine driving for 29 minutes and then crashing, man 1 minute more I was so close to buying my frozen burgers

[@theoreticalphysics3644]

Also american grocery stores are all basically almost on the scale of being warehouses, so just going in and out for a few items is extremely inconvenient. It takes me 10 minutes to drive to the nearest store (which is probably better than average relative to the rest of the country), then literally for a few items it takes 15-30 minutes between having to park, find them all the way in the back of a store or getting lost in the aisles and having to wait in line to check out and ultimately leave the shoping center. Before you know it, I've lost almost an hour. Living alone, I don't bother buying fruits or bread. Produce in American stores are also pretty poor quality often already molding on shelves. Fresh bread is non existent and despite the loads of preservatives still goes bad anyway. I will sometimes skip meals bc I'm too tired to fit in a simple grocery trip. I also live in what's apparently ranked as one of the best suburbs in the country.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

So where does this put me? I love frozen foods! I also have fresh food always. Honestly though, who would physically walk to a grocery store when it's nearly 95°F??? No freaking way! It's smarter to drive to the store to get that food home asap. Food requires cooler climate control to not go bad. I say all this because it's practical yet I, too want walkable living space rather than everything built around cars.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

​@@theoreticalphysics3644 You need a bread machine. 🍞 They are wonderful!!!

[@thomasburke7995]

Remember folks .. there is a difference between frozen MEALS and frozen foods. Prepared microwave wave frozen MEALS usually have the lowest quality ingredients and are the most processed Frozen foods are usually fruits and veggies that are picked at thier peak ripeness and can handle the freezing process. Most comerical kitchens actuall use frozen goods to make the meal because fresh is not that fresh.

[@luke_cohen1]

That used to be the case until the last 5-6 years as brands like Devour began to shake up the market and forced everyone to increase their quality. Frozen meals now are pretty decent in terms of quality but suffer the same stereotypes that started up 50 years ago when people used the cheapest and worst quality ingredients possible for said meals.

[@mariamejawara]

Frozen meal is still frozen food. It's like saying there's a difference between orange juices and fruit juices. You could have said that no all frozen food is good.

[@blackbird6001]

*Frozen broccoli or berries are still much more better than no fiber at all). That’s normal and convenient food. It depends how do you prepare it. I can’t say the same about ready instant TV dinners or junk food*

[@Nat-vr6nw]

I don't understand this as well, what's wrong with frozen peas 😢

[@-Dragon-Master-]

Not my problem I'm a microwave master

[@totoroben]

The freezer is also a great tool for meal prep purposes. You can make your own individual portions of meals just as well as a larger company. Microwaves heat liquids up well, but now with air fryers there is another opportunity to have more crispy frozen foods. I would argue that frozen foods are in direct competition of takeout from restaurants for its convenience.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Ait fryer = mini oven

[@CordeliaWagner]

Miniovens were on the market for decades, airfryer is just a rebranding. Greetings from GenZ

[@totoroben]

@@CordeliaWagner not necessarily. It depends on how fast the mini oven is moving the air.

[@xhy12]

@@CordeliaWagnerKinda but not exactly. Air fryer has an large fan which is much better at circulating hot air, crisps up the food much better than conventional ovens, mini or not.

[@DeltaSierra426]

Agreed; frozen foods are competing as take-out from home freezers instead of take-out from restaurants.

[@fernandoserrano9393]

Frozen vegetables are great. You can use them when you need them and they don’t go bad.

[@mdb1239]

I love frozen fruits and veggies. One of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century.

[@AnaDiaz-wz4cf]

The frozen corn that comes in a steam able bag is my absolute favorite corn😂

[@Rec-cl7ns]

I can tell you from being in the restaurant business for 25 years at one time and especially with fast food up to 75% of what you're eating came in frozen. That's why they have huge "Walk-In" Freezers. Fresh food is very difficult to manage unless you're high volume high end Restaurant. So be aware of the "Special" you're being offered at your favorite restaurant.

[@CordeliaWagner]

In Germany it's 80%. That's why I don't go to restaurants. Low quality with lots of chemicals.

[@kaydenl6836]

@@CordeliaWagnerfreezing isn’t a chemical or additive buddy

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

as someone who lives alone, i prefer frozen foods as its very difficult to keep food long enough to eat it, especially when you eat as sparse as I do. I often eat out more than I do eat at home because food is often sold too large for me to be able to make it worthwhile to buy fresh. I keep a frozen meal or two in the freezer for when I dont go out or cant but other than that my fridge is basically empty.

[@hydroaegis6658]

Eating out easily costs 5 - 10 times more than any amount of fresh food waste at home.

[@Omni0404]

That's my personal gripe about spinach. I could eat spinach every day and it'll still go bad before I can use a whole bag. Since I eat it raw it goes a long way.

[@Omni0404]

Double replying to suggest something to get you out of your food slump: get some really nice lunch meat and cheese from the deli. Go buy some fancy bread maybe some artisan pickles, whatever floats your boat. Making sandwiches with quality ingredients is super healthy, affordable, and quick. The meat will last around 4 days in the fridge.

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

@@hydroaegis6658 i have done the math actually, with how much i eat, at my local grocery store it would cost me twice as much to buy the ingredients than to just eat out.

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

@@Omni0404 i do from time to time but regular bread even where i live cost twice as much as equivalent from kroger and how little i eat half the package goes bad before i get around to using all of it

[@kaystephan2610]

Imo the main reason for frozen goods is the convenience of preservation. You can buy it, chug it in the freezer and use it whenever you need and it is still good for a VERY long time. No need to consume in a somewhat timely manner.

[@privacyvalued4134]

Certain frozen foods are actually more nutritious than fresh. Take vegetables like green beans and carrots. Flash frozen vegetables are done so at peak ripeness and are flash frozen within hours of picking them. The fresh produce section has days old vegetables that are generally picked before they are properly ripened. In other words, vegetables in the frozen food section contain more nutrient rich vitamins and minerals than fresh vegetables in the produce section. This does not include TV dinners or vegetables with sauces. Those have tons of sodium and are far less healthy than fresh veggies.

[@marcbuisson2463]

It's much more because the american way of life is quite incompatible with buying fresh food... Go keep them in a good state when you shope onve every 2 weeks...

[@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916]

​@@marcbuisson2463I shop multiple times a week just getting miscellaneous things here and there for a change my wife and I decided on for dinner. I still will almost always buy frozen anything, because it's so much easier and better because it's probably literally farm fresh out of that bag. I'll buy big bags though, not only is it cheaper but buying small bags is so wasteful in regards to trash and money.

[@bigk777]

I've hard the same can be said about can veggies. It's packed at it's peak.

[@petesmitt]

Carrots are not a good example for frozen foods; fresh carrots store just fine.

[@Wozza365]

Yep, I'm in the UK and buy a lot of stuff daily, but I buy bags of frozen veg by the kilo. They are already prepared so it's less effort and have that extra nutrition you mention. For anyone living alone it's basically a must have if you want to get your daily nutrition properly. But keep an eye on ingredients, some do have a habit of adding stuff. They should only have 1 ingredient, or 2/3/4 if they're a mixed bag.

[@misspomerol]

There are a few rare things for example like frozen peas which actually tend to work better in most recipes than fresh peas. There are certain frozen items that does work better in most recipes. I always have frozen peas and frozen potatoes in my freezer even though I tried to eat as fresh and as local as possible just because those two items function better frozen and things like pasta sauces and casseroles and stews. I also like to have an emergency bag of 15 vegetable minestrone so that I always have something to make a soup for dinner if I don’t have time to get to the market. I don’t think the bulk of your diet should be frozen items but it’s good to have on hand for emergency situations and for things like peas which honestly just cook way way better from frozen.

[@samanthab1923]

Always keep a bag of frozen peas on had to use for First Aid.

[@Kosmokatgirl]

Frozen peas, carrots & chickpea patties. I just found the recipe this week ! They so cheap & easy to make and delicious, I use for burgers , sandwiches, crudites garnishments !

[@erikamaclean4230]

Frozen potatos??? Never heard of it.

[@prathification]

People might think tv dinners but frozen food is so much more. Mostly I buy my veggies frozen because the quality (outside of a few months) is better than fresh. Also, nothing goes bad before you get a chance to use it, kinda like treating your freezer like a second pantry…

[@joylox]

I froze a lot of stuff from my garden last year, because I couldn't eat it all fresh, and some foods need more than just a cold room to keep them fresh. Zucchini was the surprise, it worked really well, and I thaw it out and sautee it, put some garlic and seasoning with it, and it's great! Zucchinis out of season are usually pretty bad and very small, so it was good to have stuff frozen to eat in the winter.

[@chuckychuck8318]

Peas particularly are always better frozen and I find frozen artichokes very convenient

[@pinkroses135]

This. I have a meat section, bread section and produce section with the occasional premade item.

[@Mike__B]

Part of it is that fresh fruits and veggies are often unripe as they need to be firm enough to survive the journey to the store without getting bruised, and they want them to look pretty (because American ideals of what makes food "good")so a lot of food can't even be used because of visual defects, where as with frozen (or canned) the visual defects don't matter at all and the food can be gotten closer to ideal peak ripeness so it will taste better.

[@justanotherrandomdisneyfan3717]

My parents always had frozen food on hand for me to eat after school and other times they were away. Also because it was cheap, could feed a big family, and tasted good.

[@yuegonghuamei6685]

Frozen food is not as fresh nor healthy as fresh ones n cost more the end because cost electricity to freeze it. Yes one of ways to preserve food longer but not sure cost n health of that.

[@viewer-of-content]

⁠Frozen foods are actually often more nutritious than fresh goods because nutrients deteriorate after harvest. Sugar added to frozen foods though is among the greatest detriments to their nutritional value. Also the tendency to eat frozen pizza or gravy laden dinners leads to the misinterpretation that the food is less nutritious. I regularly freeze home cooked meals and prep out about a month of healthy dinners/lunches/breakfasts and it's better than many other options.

[@yuegonghuamei6685]

@@viewer-of-content hope we have thourough research on frozen food all about. Government is no help either it depends on who give it money.

[@viewer-of-content]

@@yuegonghuamei6685 the chemical makup of frozen biotic material has actually been widely studied for different purposes both nutritionally and medically. Freezing nano ice crystals and/or freeze drying are among the most preservative non-damaging ways to save nutritional values, nutritional values including micro-nutrients and probiotics. The problem is that our food system is designed to sell the most addictive, unhealthy, and sloppily preserved food possible. Even this video talked about hos the California strawberry industry had been poorly freezing and destroying nutritional value from their crop, which they also sprinkle with sugar which you could've read on a lot of frozen strawberry packages over the years. And thus the issue is the big ice crystal, sugar, pizza rolls, and uncaring quality control systems.

[@yuegonghuamei6685]

@@viewer-of-content human evolved eat fresh natural food now so much manmade plant chemicals hormones insecticides pesticides too much cook meat milk food vaccines now frozen im not it's healthy. That's why American are big tall alright due plenty of food but unnatural stuffs screw our brain n bodies too like become addict crazy hyper violent stupid mindless, get fat old ugly acne wrinkles sag skin cancer diseases coroner of all kind very fast. Food industry and agricultural industry must be lot investigated and fine even imprison due they poison America. Many labels and ingredients are fake n fraud. It's way overdue.

[@Dee--Jay]

50% of my groceries are frozen food. And frozen foods have came along way and its some healthier options available

[@rohitraina211292]

Lol.. good one with it being healthier

[@MauroRincon]

I usually keep prozen legumes, peas, corn and a mix of things for cooking. But always keep fresh vegies as well if I want texture and bite. It's just not the same, and you do ruin some of the fiber

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Pro--zen! This is like better than frozen I take it? Don't edit that! It's obvious what ya meant, and cute lol funny as is.

[@sarahs.9292]

I don't mind buying frozen food. I had been doing it for years until I found out about a food delivery service. They have fruits, veggies, and meats. It last me about 7-8 months. Then I reorder and the delivery guy who is super awesome. He then takes his time organizing the food into my said freezer. It's wonderful.

[@rayden54]

For a lot of people, fresh simply isn't a viable option. I live in the middle of nowhere. My town, at least, still has a grocery store. Several of the nearby towns have lost theirs. Their only options now are Dollar General or drive 15 miles. That's a lot to ask for something that only has a shelf life of a couple days.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Dollar General does not have healthy anything except maybe bottled water, and sometimes fresh watermelons. It's a food desert if only a DG is there. But hey if you can drive to get your groceries then head back to a place that's probably country life, enjoy it!

[@OrioleSongbird]

I'm in that type of area, there used to be a local grocer but the dollar general was cheaper and more convenient, so they got shut out.

[@rayden54]

@@OrioleSongbird Unfortunately, in my case the two neighboring towns' grocery stores (plus a second one in mine) were all run by the same person. And the loss mostly came down to financial mismanagement.

[@rickson50]

Can you elaborate? How does an area that people live in not have a grocery store? I can't comprehend such a thing. There are no less than 30 grocery stores of various sizes within 5 minutes walk from where I am this moment. How do people get food? If there are people, there is a market for food. Why don't store open?

[@stevk5181]

​@@rickson50Go west young person. I didn't even live somewhere super rural and the closest grocery store was still 10+ miles away, and crazy expensive. To get to an affordable grocery store it was almost a 20 mile drive. Some areas of OR, WA, CA, ID, NV, UT, AZ, NM WY, MT, and NE (to name a few), won't have a grocery store for 50 miles or more. Heck, there are signs saying "No services next 70 miles" on the major state highways and on I-70, meaning not even a gas station let alone a grocery store. And yes, people live out there.

[@sandeshvantveen]

Not American but frozen stuff is great. I bought a fridge freezer combo and the fridge is twice as large as the freezer, but it sits mostly empty, whereas my freezer is always full.

[@jessicakakern4571]

Frozen vegetables are cheaper than canned and especially fresh and they do not perish quickly. Its also nice most frozen vegetables only ingredients listed are the vegetables

[@eaglel5558]

I love frozen fruits now. Summer time hot weather sometimes makes me have a craving for something nice and cool. I turned to ice cream automatically but I don’t like it since it is too sweat. Then I found frozen fruit- perfect for cool me down!

[@piziskewl]

Yeah, sweaty ice cream sucks. You should try sweet instead.

[@christinacody8653]

When the kids were younger, a favorite snack was frozen fruit after playing outside.

[@janelane1912]

Have you tried trufru?

[@conradp7038]

The air fryer has changed frozen food taste for me

[@lifevest1]

Working in a cold storage warehouse was the best summer job ever 😎🥶

[@petesmitt]

The cold storage supply chain in Australia is great, right up to local store delivery, where the poorly supervised staff often leave frozen product sitting at room temperature too long, resulting in compromised quality.

[@1Snouser]

Frozen veggies and fruit actually maintain their nutritional integrity at a better rate than fresh. The taste though is questionable

[@kiefershanks4172]

Ah yes, Cairogenic freezing, common amongst the ancient Egyptians.

[@ImipugoVideos]

😆🤣

[@LonceyMills]

😂😂 I thought I was mistaken, but the rewind…

[@jc789852]

she made the same mistake like 3 times in a row lmao like how

[@jc789852]

oop 4 apparently

[@gaspikefan]

We've been sitting here talking about the ancient Egyptian practice of Cairogenics, and how the instructions on how to do this are written in Cairo-glyphics in many ancient burial sites. They really knew how to freeze crap! 🙄

[@yugiohonline26]

Because they don't go bad quickly and I don't feel like driving to the grocery store multiple times a week.

[@codelessunlimited7701]

The reason frozen foods are well distributed in America is because of its well positioned of its energy grid. Other countries are so expensive to distrribute its energy grid, thus fresh foods gets thrown away and go wasted. As long electric bills are cheap, frozen foods will be distributed equally.

[@jaredspencer3304]

I ate a lot of frozen food over the pandemic, but stopped because with inflation, frozen meals are now insanely expensive. They used to be the cheaper and more convenient option, which justified the poorer quality. But now, you're paying more for a worse meal, which is harder to justify.

[@mehere8038]

the best option is to buy the frozen ingredients & combine yourself at home

[@Liz-in8lu]

Agreed! They used to be cheap, now they are the price of a fresh meal. No way I’m eating frozen now.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Frozen vegetables are a great invention. Fresh vegetables have a short shelf life.

[@christinacody8653]

We often find it the best way for us to keep veggies ready to go. More often than not, we have a feast/famine cycle on our veggie use (the kids either go crazy for them or get bired of them, leading to food waste), so frozen veggies are the easiest way to keep them on hand.

[@flamingpi2245]

Frozen produce is fantastic for everyday meal prep and health. Every bit as nutritious as fresh, stays good almost indefinitely, and way more convenient

[@mapcec593]

They don´t "love" frozen products, they are used to them. Each time a united-statecian travels to any country of the center or south of America they realize the true flavor of food because most of the food there is fresh, not frozen products in a bag and realize of the good effects on their bodies too.

[@madbug1965]

I love frozen food even more since I got an air fryer! 😅

[@thefunfam1433]

Lol you could use an oven

[@Sndyj457]

@@thefunfam1433it’s not the same

[@harnes64]

When I (Kenyan) visited my aunt,who lives in Denver, I was shocked. Mangoes didn't taste like mangoes,but yellow water bottles. Strawberries and bananas even worse. I hated the water😂😂. It tastes, just weird. I am to start a masters degree at the University of Ohio,and I am dreading what my diet will look like. Last time,I was in the US only three weeks but i gained over three kilos. 😂

[@christinacody8653]

I have friends from India who swears by the frozen mangos, much for the reason you described. They're usually frozen ripe, rather than transported long distances underripe.

[@jessicabeca1234]

You’re not the first or tenth person saying that they gained weight in USA in a short period of time without eating junk.

[@carnibenz8217]

I think a lot of that depends on what part of the country you're in. The mangoes I've had in southern Arizona are a lot better than the ones I had in upstate New York. So yeah, good luck finding quality tropical fruit in Ohio lol

[@augustek5382]

@@pripls9607 Food is not horrible in the US. You can actually get much healthier stuff in the states at the right stores than in EU. I moved from EU to the US 10 years ago and did not gain any weight. I shop at a local Co-op where I can get plenty of healthy foods and cook. If you eat pizzas from Walmart or McDonald's and similar, yeah you will gain weight. Unhealthy foods are more accessible in the states in general, but no one is forcing you to drink sodas, starbucks and eat unhealthy foods. The reason why some people are gaining weight in the states is only their own foods choices.

[@RSJ1947]

​@@augustek5382while I don't disagree, as an Indian in the US for a decade I can say the food here is less flavorful than I ate and eat in India. It's definitely the seeds and probably very little to do with the way the produce is farmed and handled.

[@STLPLAYB0Y]

To me frozen food is the best alternative to getting canned food because I don't eat enough fruits and veggies to be able to just keep buying fresh fruits and vegetables and keep throwing them away when they go bad so just buy it frozen it'll taste a lot better than getting it from a can

[@djp1234]

I love frozen food so much that I bought a giant upright freezer from Costco, just so I could make fewer trips to Costco.

[@helloimclaudio]

Fresh tastes so much better “Congratulations, you played yourself” - Dj Khaled

[@drinkingoutside7584]

Yea fresh is way better

[@kabysummit5801]

Yes, we all know fresh is wonderful. But, it's not always practical because of short shelf live.

[@djp1234]

@@drinkingoutside7584 I don’t have time to go to the grocery store every day. And with gas prices, each trip to the store is like $10.

[@robertjamesonmusic]

Gross

[@EvanRustMakes]

The presenter keeps saying "CYROgenic" instead of "CRYOgenic" freezing

[@hannahcornell9056]

Denial may be a river in Egypt but there’s no such thing as Cairo-genics.

[@WPaKFamily]

At least I wasn't the only one that thought she sounded like she has a low iq.

[@exMuteKid]

I know right!!

[@TimCortesi]

@@mkclps Yup and yup. What a lousy video.

[@ImipugoVideos]

😄😆🤣

[@parallelpinkparakeet]

I don't love frozen food, but it's certainly more convenient than fresh. I can have berries out of season that won't get moldy in two days. At the end of the day, I'll always prefer the taste of something that's fresh and just harvested. But for eating healthy and simple on a budget, frozen is the way to go.

[@matthewhuszarik4173]

I’m an American and I don’t like frozen food but it is usually better than canned food, but I prefer fresh food. That is why we put in a large garden during the pandemic.

[@kineticstar]

I've never liked frozen food other than ice cream. I grew up on it because I was poor. But it never tasted right or had a good texture. As an adult, I've never bought frozen food for myself or my family.

[@P2Feener305]

Same..blows my mind the titles to the videos on YT… a lot of assumptions.

[@LegitBacKd00rNiNJa69]

cool story, do you want attention and valdiation?

[@qiyamahsaleem8742]

Same here. I avoid frozen foods at all costs. It reminds me of my childhood.

[@jasonpark1556]

​@@LegitBacKd00rNiNJa69you have to live a really miserable life for that to be your first thought after reading his comment

[@kabysummit5801]

Frozen is convenient. Not that difficult.

[@silasthornblood9038]

I like frozen veggies because i can have them on stock and not worry about if they're gonna go bad or have metal shavings from can storage.

[@PasteteDoeniel]

You don’t need 2 hours to cook something. You can make meals in 10-20 min from fresh ingredients.

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

as long as you get those inregidents fresh, use them right away and dont use more than you need. Easy for a family but trust me, not everyone is able to do that. Especially when you work late and dont have 24/7 stores, and live alone and cant afford to waste 3/4 of a product because its sold fresh in quantities more than you can eat in a month.

[@Lottoboi100]

As an American I hate frozen food but there's so much of it eventually you're going to eat it

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

You probably eat formerly frozen food without realizing it if you buy anything from a restaurant. You're being ridiculous to dislike frozen foods. Freezing can preserve quality.

[@Sndyj457]

@@Starry_Night_Sky7455exactly! Everything at Long Horn, Red Lobster and Olive Garden are frozen

[@OhJodi69]

Most of the food you eat in restaurants has been frozen.

[@goodbher9244]

Frozen veggies will always be "fresher" than fresh. Because they freeze them right after they pick them. They also last forever in the freezer so less food waste. Especially for things like berries that rot so fast.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

there are reasons why some parents always have frozen stuff in the freezer for their kids after school snack hot summer day etc. when I was growing up in the 90s/early 2000s we always had Celeste Frozen pizzas for one Totinos Pizza rolls stover's individual Lassana etc. in the freezer

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Do Celeste pizzas still exist? I wonder.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 I believe so though we haven't bought them in years

[@mdel310]

I work 60 hours a week as a single dude, having a variety of frozen foods on hand at all times just checks so many boxes, since I don't have time to cook everyday during the week.

[@The92Waffles]

I really should learn to cook better than the basics. but the convenience of frozen food is too much to overcome. I'd rather be spending that time I'd spend on cooking doing other things

[@carerforever2118]

Not just in America, here in Australia too. I just try to buy more frozen fruit and vegetables, because l'm trying to lose weight. Fresh goes off to quickly. I only order food from supermarket once a month, as I have no car or driver's licence to go to the store to buy fresh daily.

[@ph11p3540]

Everyone should have a freezer chest and a small garden even if it's just a window side or balcony herb potted herbs and the odd tomato plant.

[@LuciPurr51]

My husband worked for Phononic[mid pandemic].. It was great until they went public and big $$ came in, they moved majority of their production to Taiwan and loads upon loads of employees got let go in droves. Pay was quite subpar too, typical.

[@safuu202]

Ppl in the US buy frozen bc they dont buy food every single day to cook when they get home, like we see in other countries where its typical to pick up what youre going to need to cook evening meals when you get home on a daily basis. Much of The US is notoriously car-centric with strict zoning laws that buffer residential and commercial areas from each other so often times, ppl dont live close within walking distance of a market or grocery store, therefore trips are limited to once a week or in some cases only once or twice a month. Thats bc commercial stores such as Grocery stores arent allowed to be built in areas zoned as strictly residential, Alot of fresh food doesnt last that long between weekly or monthly trips to be used up properly before it spoils. Therefore a lot of food goes to waste. Not to mention alot of ppl within the US live within food deserts, which means the expense is higher to transport food from shop to home (fuel, public transit fare, time) Also Americans have notoriously intense work schedules that consist of long hours outside the home, that consumes energy and time that may have been spent on cooking and preparing meals. Frozen foods are compatible with Americans needs based on not having access to balanced work-life time split and not having access to walking distance stores that sell fresh produce. If we redesigned urban and suburban areas to be more walkable to grocery and market store destinations and allow work schedules to be more flexible and not to be 9-14 hrs long just to survive, you would likely see more Americans opt for fresh foods the same way the rest of the world does. PS: the fact that enough food to feed 950 million ppl goes to waste bc of poor storage is a disgrace.

[@mehmet.albyrk]

As usual you're doing this job greatly thanks cnbc for it. Love watching ❤

[@TheLastLineLive]

I’d probably starve without frozen food.

[@creativemindplay]

😂Pity

[@siloPIRATE]

Before I’d even started I was thinking it’s because your stores are so far away from where people live therefore you either want to buy in bulk or and/or freeze what you buy so it doesn’t expire and therefore you make fewer trips (which would take an age)

[@Steven-xf8mz]

If you live in a metropolitan, learn basic cooking, find a supermarket in the nearby chinatown or chinese community, get fresh stuff at like 30% discount. Personal experience, saving depends on what you buy and where you are buying from.

[@ManChan-w5p]

Thanks. I was born in Hong Kong in 1971. I grew up rarely eating frozen food. Early on we weren't Americanized so we got a live chicken from a live poultry market. It was slaughtered in the kitchen.

[@silentwisdom05]

2:15 anyone notice they use a less than sign?

[@isaacliu896]

It's a marvelous innovation. Not everyone should have to specialize in being their own personal chefs, that time is often better spent doing something else.

[@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916]

I love cooking, but I also understand the people that absolutely hate cooking. It's time consuming, and learning how to cook by yourself can be costly, and is extremely time consuming.

[@Tom-sg4iv]

Here in Spain you can’t really get any frozen meals. Is mainly frozen fish, vegetables and pizza.

[@raycenteno7698]

Paused the video before it started. I think… 1) Time 2) Convenience 3) Price

[@la7dfa]

Many frozen vegetables are better than semi-fresh ones in nutrients. Not seeing what is wrong with frozen products. It is ultra-processed food that is the main problem.

[@TheLastLineLive]

@@la7dfaindeed. Freezing is a great way to preserve without the need to use preservatives or genetic modification.

[@la7dfa]

@@TheLastLineLive What is wrong with genetic modification? Farmers does that all the time. Have you seen natural corn, it is a thin straw with 6-7 maize corns. But I agree freezing is fine.

[@TheLastLineLive]

@@la7dfa depends on the how. Stuff like cross breeding is natural and normal, nothing wrong with that. Stuff like Bayer/Monsanto’s methods are not.

[@raycenteno7698]

Both great arguments guys. Thats progress though. With progress or decisions theres always a bad and good outcome out of it.

[@jackjhmc820]

in hong kong, online grocery HK TV mall would pack a disposable ice cube on frozen foods when they are delivered to home. So there s no need for proprietary frozen box for delivery if you deliver them within 30 mins from a delivery truck that has a freezer.

[@bronze5420]

"cyrogenic freezing" how did that pass through quality review :s

[@lokesh303101]

Cut Vegetables are good to make curry, soups and salads. Good for Affordable Meals on Mass Cooking Menu.

[@LiamRappaport]

Meanwhile since covid started, every frozen food I've tracked has gone up 40%+. I've never heard anyone pronunce "cryogenic" as "kye-rogenic"...interesting.

[@tex-mex_gal]

Frozen fruit and veggies are the best! I use frozen blueberries, frozen avocados, frozen broccoli, frozen carrots, frozen asparagus all the time and it's so convenient! Best invention ever!

[@Imfromtheportlandorarea]

Lean cuisine is my fav and frozen steak burritos yum

[@Education-Edge]

Watching this while drinking a smoothie using frozen fruits. 😅

[@techcafe0]

TIP: remove freezer items from their cardboard packaging before putting them into the freezer. saves a ton of space and you can pack more food in the freezer.

[@juliebrocklehurst-woods5247]

I love frozen vegetables, but not most heat and serve items.

[@englishwithaltini]

Same!

[@VonnieOdette]

This mentions liquid nitrogen or liquid co2 for freezing. Iowan are concerned about the co2 pipeline crossing the state. Is there a way to use that co2 for freezing or is it so contaminated due to being a waste product that it not usable for this method?

[@timberwolfe1645]

All I hear is 'proprietary' and immediately I think of a tiny change in how it's done and they charge hundreds on top of what it should be

[@fabianadefreitas2365]

Os congelados são mais baratos que os alimentos frescos ou as pessoas tem preguiça de cozinhar? A mesma pergunta vale para pasta, feijão e outros alimentos.

[@YuiAdventure]

I love frozen vegetables and fruits bc it last longer. I can’t finish regular vegetable and fruits in a week…. And it turns bad after a week.

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

How nutrition compared between dried food and frozen food?

[@ttban1988]

I just love fresh food😊❤

[@AMM0beatz]

Never bought food from groceries till I moved to US. Local farmers market in my country are open 7 days a week, affordable veggies and meat, and each town have multiple farmers market from small to large set up.

[@Bat_Boy]

It’s cheap. It’s easy to heat. Sold!

[@allythearts5439]

I enjoy eating both fresh and frozen fruits/veggies. You can preserve more food when its already packaged frozen. Plus i have found frozen produce to be more cost effective.

[@akiraigarashi2874]

Frozen veggies and fruits are great cause they stay good pretty much forever

[@celieboo]

Until they get freezer burned.

[@akiraigarashi2874]

@@celieboo They stay in high quality for months which is more than enough imo. Unfrozen produce goes bad in a couple weeks or even less which is too short (unless you have a family to go through it fast).

[@ካቡ]

Very excellent insight

[@CordeliaWagner]

Frozen meals are DISGUSTING but frozen veggies, fruits and legumes are great! I love my coconut yoghurt with frozen mango as a NiceCream 🤤

[@georgewashington7829]

There's passive cooling techniques these warehouses should use to reduce their cooling needs; solar panels on the roof at a 10' offset should provide shade (reducing head absorption) and increasing power production to run the cooling. If they built a separate warehouse nearby and leased it to a company that uses a fair amount of low level heat they could pump the heat out of the warehouses to a canning facility, or someone that does a lot of laundry and needs hot water. Making the waste heat a product that's valuable. Use some Geothermal for area's you can't do that.

[@comment.highlighted]

We love Frozen food because it’s convenient and the quality has gotten pretty good 🙂

[@hudsonfrank1121]

I worked grocery during covid and people do not realize the supply chain is sensitive and it takes one mass buy out of society to empty a grocery store. Every natural disaster, weather event... Society can clean out a grocer in

[@jamesbohannon5506]

Birds Eye California Blend is my go to frozen veggie. I have it for dinner at least four times a week.

[@ilenestrong7471]

Surprised to see the Lineage Storage Facility in Richland, WA in this video. I was part of the team that built the facility. It is fully automated with some of the newest methods from Europe.

[@jon6309]

90% of my purchases at the grocery store is from the frozen section lol.

[@carvalhoribeiro]

very helpful

[@ericalashay0209]

I never buy frozen fruits and veggies. After I tasted fresh corn for the first time going back to frozen corn made me realize how disgusting it is. I just freeze my own fruits and veggies

[@jonasbaine3538]

Hilarious

[@btudrus]

"I never buy frozen fruits and veggies" I never buy ANY fruits or vegetables. Who would eat that unhealthy nonsense?

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Piff. Perhaps the frozen veggies weren't very good to begin with. I can get quality frozen fruits and veggies for sure. This is silly! Freezing preserves them well. Fresh is susceptible to so much more spoilage on the journey from farm to table. You can also buy from a local co-op to get fresh.

[@ericalashay0209]

@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 well I had some strawberries and blueberries that were going bad a little and I knew I wasn’t going to finish the whole container in time so I froze them and used them for a smoothie ☺️

[@btudrus]

@@Starry_Night_Sky7455 "I can get quality frozen fruits and veggies for sure" You can also get quality cocaine. But if you want to be healthy you rather won't eat the unhealthy plant sht...

[@hitardo]

1:33 Europe right there! 😛 Great video, guys, Love your reporting.

[@Empatheticbella]

America food banned in UK our food ingredients are so unhealthy and they have no problems feeding it to us a shame

[@MH-eu1dr]

I bought dragonfruit fresh the other day. Two of them. Was planning on eating one a day. I ate one. Went to bed. Wife got up before me went to work. I check fridge and my dragonfruit is gone. So much for fresh food.

[@3SevenStangVids]

frozen processed food is horrible for you. It takes 5 mins to sear a steak. Throw some vegtables in a skillet in the oven for 20 mins and bam done. I see so many excuses in these comments from people that literally just dont want to take one extra step to make something healthy and nutritious. They would rather peel off a plastic cover and set the microwave to 4 minutes. You are what you eat

[@Hollowdude15]

Frozen Foods is so great and amazing video CNBC :]

[@Jahnu_Shambu]

Cheap and laziness is the answer. Frozen veggies and berries are cheap because 1). It's easy to harvest and freeze the produce at the site of production itself 2). Size doesn't matter (odd shaped and not well grown are mixed with other well grown ones) 3). When the veggies are evenly cut it's easy pack them 4). Longer shelf life. They promote laziness because no need to wash or cut them - 1). Huge quantities are washed in a conveyor belt at the site of production itself 2). Machine sorted 3). Machine cut evenly Now don't ask me about nutritional content, processing and preservatives... (Even the frozen ones need some sort of preservatives).

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Laziness? Says the person that probably harvested nothing 🙄

[@PerfPQ]

Working in a cold storage warehouse was the best summer job ever

[@biswajee]

Cryogenic not Cyrogenic 😂

[@benedictdesilva6677]

Yes, 'tis a crying shame...

[@gr8bkset-524]

Marie Calendars switched to paper dishes which made me feel good throwing away. Healthy Choice had a perforated plastic basket they call a "steamer" inside a plastic bowl that contains the sauce. I feel bad about throwing all that plastic away but haven't found a use.

[@jocosus3]

3:37 Interesting to learn about Clarence Birdseye

[@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916]

People who say they don't like frozen food haven't had properly frozen food. I can have bags of vegetables, fruit, meat, whatever, all frozen for as long as I need it. When I'm ready to use it to make dinner or lunch, it's as good and fresh as it was the day it was frozen. Which tends to be extremely fresh because the volume these companies go through. Now that flash freezing is standard, frozen food is fantastic. I'm not talking about putting meat from the meat section in a refrigerator either. That still damages the meat because it's not flash frozen.