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5 unusual facts about Clarence Birdseye


Bay de Verde

1953 - Birdseye cold storage plant built replacing old Moores store.

Clarence Birdseye

In 2012 the first book-length biography of Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky's Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man was published by Doubleday.

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Flash freezing

American inventor Clarence Birdseye developed the quick-freezing process of food preservation in the 20th century.

Freeze-drying

However, in the case of food, or objects with formerly-living cells, large ice crystals will break the cell walls (a problem discovered, and solved, by Clarence Birdseye), resulting in the destruction of more cells, which can result in increasingly poor texture and nutritive content.



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