Do meat and poultry products change color after freezing?
Color changes occur in frozen foods. The bright red color of meat as purchased usually turns dark or pale brown depending on its variety. This may be due to lack of oxygen, freezer burn or abnormally long storage. Freezing doesn’t usually cause color changes in poultry. However, the bones and meat near the bones can become dark. Bone darkening results when pigment seeps through the porous bones of young poultry into the surrounding tissues when poultry is frozen and thawed.
