Re: Irradiation

Thanks, Larry. I knew it was something that prolonged shelf life, cooking would surely shorten shelf life. The concerns I've heard about irradiated food are not about it maintaining any radioactivity - instead I think the process destroys or makes unavailable some of the nutrients that would be there otherwise. So that for instance a whole diet of irradiated food might not be nutritive.

I'm just trying to figure out ways to get the pumpkins to last longer AFTER carving. I've tried polyurethane, vaseline, and hairspray. I'm not sure about sealing a biggie in plastic... hey. Didn't a couple of big ones come to the weighoff last year shrinkwrapped?? Now i wonder what that was all about.

B.


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From: Larry Checkon
food is irradiated with gamma rays. ... does not
cook or have any noticable effect on the food.



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