Prepared foods, also known as convenient pre made foods, refer to various popular formula foods that have rapidly developed internationally in the past 20 years and are produced through industrialization. Their biggest feature is that they have certain formula requirements and process procedures. It has advantages in processing, preservation, transportation, sales, and consumption, such as saving time, materials, fuel, small volume, and the ability of waste to be processed into feed. It can be said that it is a product of the combination of modern nutrition, food technology, food refrigeration, modern packaging and other disciplines. Conditioned foods are divided into low-temperature conditioning and room temperature conditioning based on their processing methods and transportation, sales, and storage characteristics. In the low-temperature conditioning category, frozen conditioning foods account for the main market share. Such as hot pot seasoning, noodle dishes, rice dishes, etc; Room temperature conditioning, usually including high-temperature sterilized canned food, conditioning bags, etc.
Conditioned food refers to food made mainly from agricultural products, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, etc. After pre-treatment and preparation processing,
Packaged food that is stored, transported, and sold in a frozen state (with a product center temperature below -18 degrees Celsius) using rapid freezing technology.
Conditioned foods belong to the category of frozen foods, which are divided into five categories: seasoned foods, animal meat products, poultry products, aquatic products, and fruit and vegetable products; Among them, prepared food has different classification methods according to different classification standards.