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flash-frozen

flash-frozen

1 4.1
Frozen very quickly to keep flavor and nutrients
  • adjective
  • /flæʃ ˈfroʊzən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : congelado rápidamente
  • When fruits are flash-frozen at their peak ripeness, they maintain more flavor and vitamins.

Examples

  • Newly molted nymphs were flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80°C.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Questing nymphs were flash-frozen upon collection and stored as described above.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The vegetables are flash-frozen immediately after harvest to keep their nutrients intact.

  • Many seafood products are flash-frozen onboard fishing vessels to ensure maximum freshness.

Synonyms

frozen
vsflash-frozen
1 1.0

Kept in a freezer to stay fresh

emphasizes very rapid lowering of temperature to retain flavor and nutrients
quick-frozen
vsflash-frozen
  • Specialized
3.8

Made very cold quickly to keep the taste and nutrients

is the same rapid preservation method but named with a different term form

Antonyms

fresh
778 1.0

Recently made or gathered food that is not spoiled

How Fast

flash-frozen
  • Specialized
1 4.1
quick-frozen
  • Specialized
3.8
frozen
1 1.0

Surface Forms

flash-frozen positive

Morphology

flash-frozen = flash-freeze (transparent) = flash + freeze + en

The adjective is the past-participle form of the verb 'flash-freeze' (i.e., quickly frozen), so the meaning is directly derived from 'flash' + 'freeze' -> flash-freeze -> flash-frozen.

Etymology

The word flash-frozen joins flash ('very quick', like a camera's bright light) and frozen (from freeze, 'make very cold'). So, flash-frozen food is frozen very fast to lock in flavor and nutrition.