Fuente: WIPO "milk" A method of preserving food in a supercooled state, wherein food is packed inside a container with no head space, and then converted to a supercooled state by a cooling step in which the food is cooled from a temperature higher than the freezing point to a temperature below the freezing point at a cooling rate exceeding -0.5 DEG C/h but no more than -5.0 DEG C/h.