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Vegetables
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Sourcing Frozen Vegetables from Ukraine: Crop Calendar, Plant Types and Supplier Due Diligence
A practical sourcing guide for Ukrainian frozen vegetables: the harvest and campaign calendar by crop, the difference between IQF, block, dicing and…
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Why do nitrate limits apply to some vegetables?
Nitrate accumulates in certain vegetables, principally leafy ones such as spinach, lettuce and rocket, and the amount depends on the species, the…
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How long do frozen vegetables keep?
Commercial shelf life for frozen vegetables is typically stated in the range of eighteen to twenty-four months at minus eighteen degrees Celsius…
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What happens if frozen vegetables thaw and are refrozen?
Two separate problems arise, and they need separating because one is a quality issue and the other is not. The quality problem…
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What does a retailer mean by fifty per cent of MRL?
It is a private contractual requirement, stricter than the law, and it means that detected pesticide residues must not exceed a stated…
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Blanching Validation for Frozen Vegetables: What to Ask For and How to Read It
What blanching does and what it costs, how processors validate the step, why the peroxidase test is both the industry default and…
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How to Write a Frozen Vegetable Specification That Holds Up at Intake
A working structure for a frozen vegetable specification: identity, sensory, physical, chemical, microbiological, packaging and the sampling plan. What each block must…
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Setting Up a Private Label Frozen Vegetable Range: Brief to First Production
A private label frozen vegetable launch fails on artwork, minimum print runs and change control far more often than on product quality.…
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Pesticide MRLs for Frozen Vegetables: Reading the Rules, the Sampling and the Certificate
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 sets one framework and thousands of numbers. This guide covers which limit applies to a frozen vegetable, how…
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What is blanching and why are vegetables blanched before freezing?
Blanching is a short heat treatment, in hot water or in steam, applied to a vegetable immediately before it is frozen. It…