How to help frozen foods to fight climate change

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Stacey Snelling is a health professor at American University. The opinion is its own.

Frozen foods are amazing in the fight against climate change. Individual actions that include frozen foods in meals can be positively contributed to climate change.

At the most recent UN General Assembly meeting, PHILEMON YANG told the participants that the participants could replace up to 1.2 billion people by rising sea levels led by global climate change. To prevent the worst scenario, the United Nations is trying to achieve the world’s net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

To achieve this goal, the world needs to find a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing food, the second main cause of greenhouse gas emissions. Handling food waste is a skillful opportunity to greatly solve climate change at consumers and industrial levels.

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Eat food waste. More than 30% of American foods are wasted and they reach the number of productions such as fruits and vegetables. 40% Or more. It is an amazing statistics, especially when we know more than 40 million people in Korea. In fact, all food waste is a much bigger concern because it ends in a landfill that emits methane, a greenhouse gas. It is more powerful than carbon dioxide foods.

Waste comes from all levels of the supply chain. Think about the harvest time. For the food we left at the site when we harvested, we wasted all the fossil fuels we needed to grow food and greenhouse gas results when the food was rotting. In addition, many foods are discarded at home. Since we ruin it before cooking it, some foods never make it on the table. The food goes into the garbage and enters the landfill.

Frozen agricultural products can play an important role in reducing food waste at home. In general, agricultural products are frozen from peak maturity, so consumers do not need to sacrifice quality or taste.

The frozen vegetables also last longer depending on the product, which lasts longer than refrigerated or fresh food (sometimes up to 6 months). It has little food remaining and less corruption.

Literature review It was conducted at Cornell University Frozen foods, especially frozen fruits and vegetables are wasteful than fresh opponents in groceries and homes. Frozen ingredients are less likely to get worse if you add meal flexibility and forget the consumer in the refrigerator.

As scientists and federal regulators develop the guidelines of the latest American -style guidelines, there is an opportunity to solve food waste by recommending more frozen agricultural products. Frozen products already Adults and children’s families (adults and children) are present for the US’s recommendations to produce two to three cups of consumption a day.

If you pay more attention to reducing food loss and waste, it is important to recognize the importance and impact of simple behaviors of frozen or purchasing frozen products, especially in relation to the United States and other greenhouse gases and climate change.