Preserving Nutrients in a Flash! The Benefits Of Flash Freezing Açai
Flash freezing is fast becoming the most popular way to preserve food. When it comes to making sure your food stays fresh for long stretches, there are not too many options. It’s a well-known fact, however, that by freezing food, you can make sure that it stays fresher, for longer. Specifically, flash freezing isn’t just making food cold. It isn’t the same as putting fruit in a freezer for a later date. Flash freezing is a much more involved process that preserves the cellular/molecular structure of the açai berry. Flash freezing is especially important when dealing with all-important açai berries, which feature a high-octane combination of antioxidants.
Flash freezing simply involves taking all the heat out of something as quickly as possible. Flash freezing removes heat so quickly that it prevents the natural breakdown of foods. This is especially important when working with delicate foods, as those ice crystals are essential in protecting the food for the long haul. Açai is one of those foods that absolutely must be preserved through flash freezing. You can’t just hope to stick the food in the freezer and expect it to be flash frozen, though. You have to make sure that you use the right items to assist in removing the heat as quickly as humanly possible.
Why is it important to remove the heat quickly through flash freezing?
People have long been looking for a better way to freeze açai berries because of the fact that açai is such a powerful healing item. It has almost ten times as many antioxidants as other fruits, and because of that, it can do big things in healing all sorts of different ailments. For instance, antioxidants are important in stopping cancer and in helping heart issues. That, more than anything else, is why people insist on flash freezing açai berries. Flash freezing obviously is not the only way to preserve food, though it is the best way. More so than any other form of food preservation, flash freezing is the most effective way to preserve ALL that the açai berry offers.
The problem with lots of forms of food preservation is that they do not preserve all the good antioxidants in food. For instance, dehydrating food does not preserve the helpful phytochemicals and flavenoids. Heat drying will almost certainly kill these things, and in the end, that will leave you with a food that is all but useless.
Mona Vie contracts with those who harvest the açai berry to preserve the fruit as soon as it is picked. The flash freeze powder is then shipped to the United States and blended with 18 other fruits to provide the freshest, most nutrient-rich juice possible.
