Americans love frozen food, but without resilient cold storage supply chain infrastructure, the growth and safety of the massive $265 billion global frozen food market is at risk. Approximately 13% of all food produced globally is lost yearly due to poor cold storage supply chains.

“In the world of cooling refrigeration, we’re still depending upon a more than century-old mechanical incumbent,” Tony Atti, CEO of Phononic, a solid-state cooling company, told CNBC.

Watch the video above to learn more about frozen food demand, global cold supply chain infrastructure, how food is frozen and what’s next for this growing section of the grocery store.

Chapters:
00:00 — Introduction
01:46 — Demand
03:28 — Flash freezing
06:20 — Cold chain
10:06 — Future of frozen

Produced and edited by: Andrea Miller
Animation: Alex Wood, Andrea Schmitz
Supervising Producer: Lindsey Jacobson
Additional Footage: Getty Images, Phononic, Lineage Logistics

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