What is IQF?

  You might be freezing food just by storing it in the freezer not knowing there are many more techniques to do it just right. Foods could also be well preserved with techniques like canning, dehydration, jarring, pickling, and salting. But none of these get the job well done as freezing.  Among the many food refrigeration techniques like, plate freezer, blast cooling, dehydro freezing, tunnel freezing, and cryogenics, IQF is a technique that stands out in the food industry IQF is not just important from the packaging perspective but that of health too! Frozen foods are the key raw material in the food industry. Frozen foods are the starting point of almost all the market-bought foods if you magnify the processes a market-sold product goes through. So, what exactly is IQF? IQF (Individually quick frozen) also known as flash freezing, means freezing the food literally in a flash at extremely low temperatures. This only freezes the food and refrains ice crystals from forming inside and o