Last year, frozen seafood sales grew 35% an unprecedented rate.
1 As more consumers cooked and ate at home, they fell in love with Alaska seafood, enjoying the taste, variety and multiple health benefits seafood offers.
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With new and experienced cooks excited to explore pollock, salmon, crab and other species, grocers can seize this opportunity and introduce new ways consumers can enjoy Alaska seafood, by cooking it directly from its frozen state.
Consumers enjoy seafood when they plan ahead
Even though consumers enjoy Alaska seafood, they don’t usually eat it the day they get it from the grocery store. Instead, they buy it frozen, with plans to cook it later in the week. This is possible because, within hours of coming out of the water, Alaska seafood is flash frozen to capture the pristine quality of seafood at the peak of its freshness. “We call this frozen-fresh quality,” explains Monica George, head of retail marketing for Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. �
going to get a little bit stale. you should use your nose and check to see if it s safe but for the most part it s perfectly usable food and around the globe, 1.2 to 2 billion metric tons of this are wasted every year. wow. okay. i get what you say about the sell-by date. but if i have like say a bag of spinach and we ve heard a lot of bad things can happen to bagged spinach, right, so how long after that sell-by date or use by date i mean, is it palatable for me to eat that? is it a month, two months, a week, what is it? there s actually a great website that has eliminated a lot of the guesswork for this. fmi.org, it s called the food keeper and you can put in whatever food it is and they give you guidance on it. really, the best things that you have at your disposal are your eyes and nose and see if it still seems like it s healthy to eat. really, the best thing you can
do up front to not waste this food and not waste this money is to just do a really few simple things to eliminate waste as soon as you come home from the grocery store. this trader joe s guy should be opening up more grocery stores like that across the country? it will be interesting to see how many people buy products in that store. you would be really surprised by how many people actually participate in these food auctions. they are getting really great deals on snacks and condiments. less so with perishable foods like dairy, et cetera, but if people are tossing out perfectly usable bags of rice, that s a problem. that s true. fmi.org is the website. fmy? fmi, food safety resources food keeper. thank you very much. i m going there after this newscast is done. thank you very much. we appreciate it. be sure to check out the blog.