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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: freezing veggies
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 13:12:17 EST
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> 	I've never seen a package of frozen mushrooms.  Yet, I
> do see frozen pizzas with mushrooms.  Why is that?  And, do mushrooms
> require any special handling (when freezing)?
> 

	Mushrooms absorb water like a sponge and have delicate cellular
structures, so I suspect that they do not freeze well because the
expansion of water inside the cells beaks the cell walls and you end
up with a gooey mess (although, come to think of it, I believe I *have*
seem frozen mushrooms before - I can't imagine that the texture is very
good, though).
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