1. Sales of precooked meals have risen sharply over the past few years.

2. Commercially precooked and ready-to-eat foods such as deli meats and cheeses travel well.

3. Precooked and frozen scrambled eggs with sausage are one combination of ready-to-eat breakfasts being marketed.

4. Canned crab meat, precooked and frozen crab meat, and precooked and frozen crab dishes are widely available.

5. The use of precook and B-cyclodextrin( B-CD) could decrease the bitter taste of grapefruit juice.