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Pennyaline[_6_] Pennyaline[_6_] is offline
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Peter A wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>> Cell metabolism not your thing, Shel? Freezing does not stop enzymatic
>> and bacteriologic activity. It slows it way down, but it does not stop
>> it. Thus the limited time that food can be stored frozen, because
>> decay/decomposition is not controlled or stopped but only slowed.
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> Half right. Enzymatic activity can continue in frozen food, hence the
> blanching, but bacterial activity is stopped completely. Living
> organisms require liquid water to function.

I refer you to the article I cited for Shel. Freezing does not stop all
bacterial activity completely, and all forms of bacteria and other
contamination are not killed by freezing.


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