Quality and safety of frozen vegetables

Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 377-416

  Parreño, Wenceslao Canet ^a   Torres, Maria Dolores Alvarez ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DEL FRÍO CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FREEZING; VEGETABLES;

FREEZING AND THAWING; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; LONG-TERM PRESERVATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINANT; QUALITY AND SAFETIES; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; VEGETABLE PRODUCES; VITAMIN C CONTENTS;

THERMAL PROCESSING (FOODS);

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