COATING OF DEEP-FROZEN FOODS

Deep-frozen food has continued to be popular on the international food market and its sales have grown enormously. Any successful innovation gives this market a further boost. The new IQF coating products are a help here. loose-frozen pieces of food are evenly coated with a liqui d phase (e.g. sauce, dressing, soup) to produce a high convenience pro duct. The new product produced by the coating process is again frozen loose. A plant capable of making these products and the production pro cess are described in this paper.