How does frozen food sometimes “taste like a freezer”?

Question

How does frozen food sometimes “taste like a freezer”?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

Since taste is based most on the smell, and most freezers smell like the food stored there plus the smell of moisture (because of the heavy condensation of the water in the air inside), the food may end up smelling like the combination of both smells. It gets worse if there are different kind of food there, so it ends up like a combination of many soggy, moist food.