Frozen food

Description of product

The range of frozen food products on the market is huge: it consists of a variety of convenience foods, ice cream, cakes, vegetables, pizza, fish, meat and poultry.

Applications of gene technology are possible in the following ingredients that commonly are found in frozen food. However, the extent to which a particular product is affected by these possibilities cannot be stated with certainty:

• see also: convenience foods

Possible application of gene technology

Applications of gene technology are possible in the following ingredients that commonly are found in frozen food. However, the extent to which a particular product is affected by these possibilities cannot be stated with certainty:

• vegetable oils and fats
• lactoprotein or whey powder, soy protein or a vegetable protein product
• starch and/or modified starch, flour or breadcrumbs
• flavour enhancer (glutamate), emulsifiers such as lecithin, antioxidant
• citric acid
• seasoning and aromas
• glucose syrup
• thickening agent hydroxypropyl starch, phosphate starch
• stabiliser isomalt

Particulary with calorie-reduced products also:

• sweetener sorbitol, aspartame, fructose