Tag Archives: preservatives

After cooking how long can we freez the cooked food and use it later?

when my wife is going on vacation she cooks different kind of foods specially nonveg. I put in plastic container and freez it and i use it later. It is normal cooking nothing (preservatives) is added in cooking to keep the cooked food in good condition. Maximum how long we can keep cooked food in freezer and use it.

And once i remove from deep freezer within how many hours we have to finish that food. After boiling it nicely can we keep the remainin food in refrigerator again and use it next day.

Is there any need of adding something during cooking to keep the food in good condition. If so what is that.

What are the other things to take care to preserve the cooked food for a long period say few months.

Thanks in advance for all of you who answers my question.

Before BHA, BHT and TBHQ…what was used to preserve food?

Nowadays it seems like everything in our food is something bad for us and with these new preservatives, it makes me wonder…what was used to preserve foods before the government started allowing these things?

Food Preservatives and their effects on the human body? Funerals and embalming?

I’ve been trying to find some information about food preservatives, but the Internet doesn’t give enough details. Here are my questions (post if you know an answer to any of these or have any help/info:

-Do food preservatives have a negative effect on the human body? (and which ones are capable of doing what)
-How negative/bad can those effects get?
-How much has to be ingested for harmful effects on the body?
-Do they affect the body’s immune system?
-Got any helpful websites about food preservatives and their effects on the human body?

-Okay, random, but I ran across this idea in a manga, xXxHolic. A girl dies but her body doesn’t rot days after her death because, supposedly, the preservatives found in food got into her blood system and it literally preserved her body. Is such a thing possible? (How freaky would that be??)

I really appreciate those who’ve answered my previous questions by the way. I know they seem random.

Additional:

I’ve been doing researching on funerals and embalming too. I think if I just looked a bit harder, I could find the answers to these questions, but I would appreciate help:

-Websites about either embalming process and how funerals work always appreciated
-How many days after a death is a funeral held, normally? Could it even be held the day after if the body could be prepared in time?
-Other than burial and cremation, any other types of funerals?
-What information is usually given on a tombstone? Name, life span I know but any other info normally given?
-How long does it take to prepare a body before it is buried? To cremate it?
-Is it legal to bury someone in the backyard (not a murder, a known death) or to make your own private family cemetery just outside/near your home?
-Odd question, but… I’ve been seeing so many Christian cemeteries, are there any cemeteries that are specifically for non-Christians?

Scaring you people? Ha, well, I just need this information for research.
Don’t you “mx mx” me.
Ahh I was thinking I’d never get an answer… Thank you so much.

Hill’s Science Plan cat food question?

where I’m from (South Africa), the Hill’s Science Diet feline doesn’t seem as bad the one from the U.S. The ingredients on the Hill’s here are as follows: Chicken and Turkey Meal, ground maize, ground rice, animal fat, maize gluten meal, digest, DL-Methionine, salt, calcium carbonate, taurine, vits and trace elements. Preserved with mixed tocopherols, citric acid and rosemary extract. The one’s in the U.S seem prettty crap: they’ve by-products and the first ingredients isn’t even meat. But here, the first ingredient IS a meat, and there are no by-products or dodgy preservatives. That’s good right? Finally… do you guys think Royal Canin is better than Hill’s? By the way, Innova, Wellness, Wysong , Felidae etc are NOT available yet in my country. Will have to wait….
Elaine/anybody… is it possible then to feed Royal Canin Siamese to my cat even though my cat isn’t a Siamese? I mean…will it harm her in any way?

pickles and preservatives?

what can be done to change the way pickles are sold in supermarkets? Pickling is a method of preserving; there is no need for polysorbate 80 and other chemicals, yet every jar of pickles, relish etc, in “non-natural” supermarkets contains these needless and possibly detrimental additives. Is there any movement to boycott, educate or change the mass producers of these food products?