What Are Perishable Foods?
Perishable foods consists of fresh meat, vegetables, fruits, foods from chilled cupboards and freshly cooked food that is stored for later use. These kinds of foods are stored in cold storage or refrigerator for increasing their life. Some of the veggies and fruits do not deteriorate or gets rotten until they are stored in refrigerator or cool place otherwise they are of no use.
What are the benefits of Cold Storage for storing Perishables
There are many advantages of cold storage when used for storing perishable foods. Some of them are discussed further:
Lowers Deterioration Rate of Perishable Foods
One of the great benefits of using a cold storage is that the low temperature helps in lowering the rate of chemical changes and growth of microorganism enzymes in foods. In simple words, the rate of food spoiling is lowered down to a great extent.
Temperature Controls
There are different areas in the refrigerator that are being operated at different temperatures. In older cold storages, the upper shelves used to be controlled at slightly colder temperature as compared to lower shelves. In modern refrigerators, the temperatures are relatively uniform thoroughly. One can check out the booklet or guides that come with the refrigerators to know more about temperature controls.
Lowers the Risk of Food Poisoning
The risk of food poisoning is lowered as storing it in a cool place may cause chemical changes like change in enzymic changes or mould that can be transferred from cooked foods to uncooked foods or from uncooked foods to cooked foods.
Minimizes the Hassle of Cooking on Regular Intervals
It often happens that people find it very difficult to cook on regular intervals. Mainly the working-class people or bachelors tend to order food from restaurants or pizza places because they do not want to cook, or they have less time to manage in their 24-hour schedule. By storing perishable foods in cold storage enable people to unfreeze the required item and cook it for about five to eight minutes and they are good to go. It reduces the hassle of cooking again and again while time and money both are saved from spending on hygienic food.
Enables to Store Foods for Longer Time Period
Cold storage offers a great advantage to store perishable items for really long time. It saves you from going to the market until you run out of food. It enables you to store food that you want to keep in your fridge for a longer time period such as the sea foods which are prone to spoilage can be stored in the coldest part of the refrigerator. But, it is necessary to cover cooked foods from getting spoiled from such items as the smell may get transferred and spoil the taste of food.
