Question

Statement 1: When food items are frozen, there is a drop in temperature followed by a further drop when they freeze.

Statement 2:  Fish should be rapidly frozen, not slowly frozen.

(a) True, False

(b) True, True

(c) False, False

(d) False, True

This question was posed to me in an international level competition.

The origin of the question is Principles of Food Freezing-1 topic in section Food Preservation, Principles of Fresh Food Storage,  Principles of Refrigerated Gas Storage of Foods and Principles of Food Freezing of Food Engineering

Answer 1

Correct option is (d) False, True

Explanation: When food items are frozen, there is a drop in temperature due to super cooling followed by a rise in temperature when they freeze.