freezing foods & histamine?

[yoshiesque]

I freeze almost everything. I consume snap frozen fruits/spinach. I freeze bone broth, raw cod (vacuum sealed in packets from costco), and other raw/cooked meats.

It just makes life easier. But now im reading it might contain histamine. Is everyone eating things fresh? That seems like a serious waste of time!

 

[Dean]

I don't think you have to worry much about the fruits and spinach. It's the meat, fish, and bone broth that develops amines (histamine). How much of a problem it might be depends on how long the meat, fish, broth sat around before being frozen and after it was defrosted, before being eaten.

 

[tara]

I've been assuming that when I buy frozen food it has usually been frozen quickly when pretty fresh, and is likely to have less histamine than buying unfrozen food that I don't know how long it has been sitting round. Assuming it was planned and packaged as frozen food, not just fresh frozen when approaching best by date.

I use muy freezer a lot too. I freeze some meat, stock, stew, fresh and stewed fruit, oysters etc from time to time too. I figure it will develop fewer biogenic amines in the freezer than in the fridge before I get around to eating it.