Neither three industrial freezing methods nor 6 months of frozen
storage caused enough changes in sensory lamb quality to be detected
by a panel test or rejected by consumers, based on small tenderness
differences and the lack of undesirable odours and flavours due to
freezing. Besides, none of the consumer's clusters showed a significant
preference for fresh than for thawed meat. This fact would support the
industry to keep lamb frozen when there are stocks in the market
without creating concerns in the consumers about buying frozen meat
or consuming thawed meat based on the lost of eating quality.