Canned and Frozen Produce - Keeping it Kosher Clips

Okay, so we got some questions from our  listeners. We're gonna now hear from one of them. Hey, big fan of the show. Do canned  fruits and vegetables need a hechsher? Yes, they do. Even aside from the possibility  of, let's say we're talking about items   that require checking, but there's another  sensitive aspect of just the canning aspect,   where they go through a thing  called a retort. And oftentimes,   these facilities can do canned chicken soup  or canned ravioli, so on and so forth. So,   if they're canned, they should  definitely require a kosher symbol. And if something says "ingredients" and it  just says, "hearts of palm" or just says,   "carrots" and doesn't say anything  else, is it possible that there are   any other kinds of ingredients that  are in there that are not kosher? Well, you have to keep in mind, even if  it just says "carrots" and nothing else,   with the food and beverage industry  as complicated as it is nowadays,   you always have to have a concern about  shared equipment and non-kosher equipment. So,   if you boil carrots in a trief pot, yeah,  the carrots end up not being kosher. Okay, that's extremely important.  Let's go to another question. What's the deal with bugs and frozen vegetables?  Are the vegetables checked beforehand,   or do they come off or are removed  during the freezing process itself? And I'm going to add to that: frozen fruit. Frozen  fruit, frozen vegetables, are they all the same? When it comes to frozen products that are  certified, I can speak for what the OU does,   right? So, the reason why they're frozen is  because they go through a rigorous washing   system. If they tried selling it fresh, the shelf  life would not be there. So the OU does validate   that the washing systems are effective in  removing bugs. And I'll add furthermore,   if the OU gives a certification, let's say on  frozen strawberries. The OU would not require   the consumer to do any additional step to make it  kosher. For example, the OU isn't going to say,   "Oh, yeah, these are kosher, provided you  then blend them when you go home." No,   the OU will not do that. Now, as far as the  freezing process itself, what I can say is when   I give my bug classes and demonstrations, I have  a lot of these bugs in my freezer at home, and   they remain intact and all well and good. So the  freezing process in itself doesn't do anything. Okay. So, you're saying that if frozen  fruit or frozen vegetables bear an OU,   then they're certifying there are no bugs in it.  But if you get frozen fruit or frozen vegetables   without a certification, without an OU on it, then  it's very possible there are bugs still on there. Correct.