Freezing is a quite established process for food preservation. The quality of frozen foods is strongly determined by the size of the ice crystals grown in the food. However, there is still little quantitative understanding of the physics governing ice crystal for- mation, as indicated by the recent literature reviews (Petzold and Aguilera, 2009; Cook and Hartel, 2010; Kiani and Sun, 2011). In this paper, we compare the ice crystal growth in solid foods via com- parison with theories and correlations from the field of solidifica- tion in alloys. We exclude ice cream from our analysis, because these crystals are grown in a scraped heat-exchanger or extruder – where the flow field and attrition and aggreg