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I bought too much broccoli a couple of weeks ago. Not wanting to waste it, I boiled and froze it. But when I came to defrost and eat it, it wasn鈥檛 as nice as the pre-frozen broccoli from a supermarket. Even though I hadn鈥檛 overcooked it, it was soft and a bit mushy, and the florets had all stuck together 鈥� whereas pre-frozen ones are separate in their bag. What do the producers do to avoid the problems I had?

Billy Sturman, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

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