Q. Is frozen chicken as good as fresh?

Answer

Although it is possible that some of the nutrients in frozen chicken could be lost during the freezing and packaging processes, the amount of nutrients that are lost is very little. Some people say that if you purchase fresh chicken and then freeze it at home, you may keep its high nutritional content while extending the amount of time it stays fresh. This is because home freezers are only meant to maintain the low temperature of frozen meals; they are not designed to freeze foods. Ice crystals develop in the spaces between the meat's fibers during the unusually lengthy period that it takes to freeze fresh chicken meat, which causes the meat's nutrient-rich fluids to leak out of the flesh. In contrast, the nutrient-rich fluids are preserved in frozen chicken meat that has been flash-frozen by poultry suppliers. Flash-freezing refers to the process of rapidly freezing food at an extremely low temperature. This prevents the formation of ice crystals in the chicken flesh.