Frozen Food

Birds Eye on how COVID-19 is changing consumer behaviour

Will Kreznick 2 months ago

The coronavirus pandemic has proven disastrous for many in the food sector. From shuttered foodservice to outbreaks in meatpacking facilities, the industry has been left far from untouched.

However, some segments have experienced unprecedented demand amid lockdowns and imposed social distancing measures. One such sector is frozen food, noted Steve Challouma, General Manager UK, Birds Eye.

Owned by Europe’s largest frozen food company Nomad Foods, Birds Eye sells a range of frozen food products – from fish and seafood to chicken and vegetables – across the UK.

“What we’ve seen in 2020, and carrying on into 2021, is an acceleration

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Best Air fryer Frozen Chicken Wings: Reviews And Rankings

Will Kreznick 2 months ago

Just in time for game day, the winner was surprisingly clear.

Super Bowl Sunday brings up lots of conflicting opinions. But whether or not you’re rooting for Tom Brady, we can all agree on one thing: game day food.

And no Super Bowl food is more satisfying than…CHICKEN WINGS! 🍗

Sure, you could order in wings from your favorite local spot, but my husband (who happens to be obsessed with chicken wings) has a theory that has been proven time and time again. Because restaurants are making wings in such a large quantity

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Best food for Super Bowl: We ate 95 frozen appetizers from grocery stores and ranked them all

Will Kreznick 3 months ago

Super Bowl LV is just days away and to help you plan your food spread for the biggest game of the season, cleveland.com reporters Brenda Cain and Yadi Rodriguez have been scouring grocery and big box store freezers for the best appetizers.

They purchased every frozen appetizer they found — chicken wings, mozzarella sticks, potato skins, a whopping 95 apps in all — and conducted a taste test to help readers decide what to serve as they watch the game in the comfort and safety of home this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rankings and photos of the 95

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Warming to the freezer aisle: ‘Often the cheapest and freshest produce is frozen’ | Australian food and drink

Will Kreznick 3 months ago

Is Australia’s attitude to frozen food thawing? A run on chest freezers in 2020 would say yes but that could be filed under things we did in 2020, when demand was driven more by measures of panic and necessity than actual want. As consumers we rate fresh food over frozen, when in truth frozen can feed more than just convenience.

“I was really mindful of including options for freezing,” says Alice Zaslavsky of her book In Praise of Veg. She’s an unabashed lover of her freezer, beyond laying down a batch cook or preserving fresh food that’s on the

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Frozen goods major could be cause of infections, Chinese studies find

Will Kreznick 3 months ago

Studies into the clusters of Covid-19 cases in recent months show that contaminated cold-chain food products could be a cause of the outbreaks, highlighting the need for protection of workers associated with the industry, according to news site China.org.cn.

“Research has indicated that the novel coronavirus can survive on cold-chain food and food packaging during long-distance shipping and may cause human infection, in particular to high-risk people such as dockworkers,” said Liu Zhaoping, a researcher at the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment.

“However, the likelihood of food-to-human transmission is considered lower than with other routes of

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