date:Sep 26, 2018
In Canada, late summer and early fall is the time for home canning and freezing the garden's bounty. Anyone who has done home preserving will tell you that blanching vegetables before freezing them is crucial to maintaining edible quality.
Now a team with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's St-Hyacinthe Research Development Centre is re-examining the usual way of heat-treating vegetables before they're frozen. The team is developing a system of partially drying vegetables using low doses of micr