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Asked by Drake Weinert ·October 2, 2018 ·5.57k readers

Frozen KNF Food

What happens when you freeze KNF Food? More specifically is it as effective as before, how does the biology change, and what are the effects on the enzymes, metabolites and growth hormones? Is this an effective way to preserve the solution? I know the literature talks about keeping it at about 1 celsius and does not recommend freezing it, but what are the scientific reasons for this?

freezing preservation

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bsutley · Oct 8, 2018
This isn't from a KNF source but Viktor Shauberger's work with water heavily revolves around the "anomaly point" of water which is +4 degrees celcius or 39.2 degrees farenheit. This is the point where water is it's densest, most capable of carrying nutrients, and highest in what Schauberger described as carbonic acid and "carbones" or "mother substances". According to his theory, when a body of water has its temperature approaching this anomally point it increases how much mineral and "carbone" substances it will hold, maintains its carrying capacity as long as its temperature is stable and decreases as the water's temperature is moving away from the anomaly point. These are each called positive, neutral, and negative temperature gradients respectively. On the other hand the opposite happens for what is called "aggravated" oxygen as the water is exposed to heat, which acclerates decomposition and promotes potential pathogens. The problem you may run into with freezing FPJ is as it freezes it may precipitate previously dissolved nutrients, enzymes, yeasts, etc. This might leave you with a really diluted frozen water and a super concentrated syrup of sugar that may not dissolve properly without warming the solution which would then most likely totally poop on your FPJ shelf life after that. But then again we can't know for sure until we try.

From the KNF library

From the KNF library Drafted by Claude from Office Hours and the books · Sep 2026 · 3 sources

The Pure KNF Manual preserves KNF Food with sugar, not cold. Ferment once, then supersaturate the liquid with sugar to arrest the fermentation (Pure KNF Manual, p. 38). A supersaturated solution will store for many years (Pure KNF Manual, p. 81).

Food made from growing tips holds the hormones, enzymes and metabolites vital to growth. These begin to break down after one year (Pure KNF Manual, p. 81). After that, treat it as a food made from fruits (Pure KNF Manual, p. 81). Fruit-based food gets better over time and stores indefinitely at 1 celsius (Pure KNF Manual, p. 81). The manual also says a better natural farmer keeps these foods in their own refrigerator (Pure KNF Manual, p. 37).

The library says nothing about freezing. It does not say what freezing does to enzymes, metabolites or hormones. It also gives no scientific reason for the 1 celsius figure.

Sources

  • p. 81 Pure KNF Manual · “A supersaturated solution will store for many years.”
  • p. 37 Pure KNF Manual · “The even better natural farmer keeps them in their own refrigerator in easy to dispense containers!”
  • p. 38 Pure KNF Manual · “we want fermentation to occur once, then we want to super saturate the liquid with sugar to arrest the fermentation.”

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