Are they supposed to eat directly, or after they are unfrozen, or after I cook them?
I have never eaten frozen berries before, but just fresh berries.
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Frozen berries as noted elsewhere have a mushier texture than fresh, so perhaps aren't great for eating in the hand; but they are excellent to pair with plain yogurt. My wife eats plain yogurt with cherries or blueberries directly out of the freezer, not fully thawed, all the time. She usually microwaves them briefly to take the chill off and partially thaw them, but I don't believe she fully thaws them.
Smoothies are the other main use I have for frozen berries, they go directly in and make the smoothie nice and cold.
Fully frozen cherries would be too hard to eat really, you could suck on them I guess but that seems like a stretch.
You say that they were frozen with the stones? I think it is the freezing of the stones that caused it. The stone is where most of the "artificial", almondlike flavour sits, just like with apricot pits and almonds. I bet that when they were frozen, some of them cracked and [insert correct name of flavour agent] seeped out into the flesh of the fruit.
The frozen pre-cooked shrimp are of course safe to eat if they come from a reputable source.
You may wish to cook them a little bit to heat them up to service temperature, and integrate them with a sauce or spices or so on, but you could just peel and eat them if you wanted to.
The shrimping industry may have some variation in how it processes shrimp after they are caught. There are certainly some vessels that are capable of cooking their fresh caught catch on board; there are also some shrimpers, especially in waters near the US, which can freeze the shrimp on board. Hopefully someone more directly familiar with the shrimping industry can give you a better answer on this part of your question.
Even if the shrimp were caught, frozen on board, then cooked at a processing plant and refrozen, assuming that the various parties took good and reasonable care, they could still be of high quality and of course safe.
All of the above assumes you are buying shrimp from repuatable and licensed sources in your own jurisdiction.
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Frozen berries as noted elsewhere have a mushier texture than fresh, so perhaps aren't great for eating in the hand; but they are excellent to pair with plain yogurt. My wife eats plain yogurt with cherries or blueberries directly out of the freezer, not fully thawed, all the time. She usually microwaves them briefly to take the chill off and partially thaw them, but I don't believe she fully thaws them.
Smoothies are the other main use I have for frozen berries, they go directly in and make the smoothie nice and cold.
Fully frozen cherries would be too hard to eat really, you could suck on them I guess but that seems like a stretch.