In order to appreciate the difference in price between fresh and flustered fruit, you need to understand the weight comparison between the two. Rostered foods have 98% of their water removed. This reduces the food's weight by approximately 90%, making it easier to handle and less costly to ship. For instance, 10 pounds of strawberries weigh only 1 pound when they are freeze dried. So if 10 pounds of frozen strawberries cost $1/pound, the raw material cost equals $10. When the 10 pounds of frozen strawberries are freeze dried, the final product weighs only 1 pound, but the raw material cost remains $10.
Added to the raw material costs are the other factors of production - labor, equipment, packaging, regulation compliance, and profit.
While the above info is correct, if you are looking around to buy freeze dried fruit, it's actually pretty inexpensive and comparable to the price of other healthy snacks. Looking online for a 10g bag of freeze-dried apples costs under a dollar and you can get a box of 20 for like 18 bucks. . . Places like Trader Joes are a little more expensive, but they do carry exotic fruits that are very pricey if you buy them fresh in the supermarket. Then again, fresh fruit expires if you don't eat it when it is just right.
It doesn't. A raisin has as much sugar as a grape, assuming the producer didn't add corn syrup or sugar to the raisins. Because, however, raisins have had most of the water removed, the amount of sugar per ounce is going to be much more for raisins than fresh fruit. An ounce of raisins might contain several dozen raisins (which have the sugar of several dozen grapes) versus an ounce of grapes, which contains, perhaps, 8 grapes (the sugar content of 8 raisins). Removing water from the fruit is going to make it appear more concentrated, even though you'll be consuming the same amount of sugar per fruit. Again, this assumes the dried fruit hasn't had extra sugar added.
Dried fruit is made by removing water via warm, dry air in a dehydrator or outdoors on a dry, sunny, hot day.
Freeze dried fruit is processed in a factory in a more involved method whereby a nearly all of the moisture is removed, through a four-step process involving pretreatment, freezing, initial drying and secondary drying stages.
Dried fruit has a shorter shelf life and often has additives to prevent spoilage. Freeze dried fruit, properly stored in sealed containers, may last for decades and requires no further preservatives.
there are lower levels of vitamin c in dried fruit than in fresh fruit and dried fruits do not have glucose
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you have to flash freeze it when it is fresh so when you thaw it, the fruit will be fresh.
The same as fresh fruit just less of them.
no. i took cooking class last semester at my school and i learned that the best way to get nutrients from veggies is to eat them fresh. frozen comes second, then dried and then in a can. it's better to get your servings than none at all. but i'd pick the fresh.
Preserves are usually boiled in a jar. Dried fruit is dehydrated and dusted with sulfur compounds or other preservatives.
By adding strange veggies and fruit dried or fresh!
Dried food, as its name implies, is food that has been dehydrated, or had most of the moisture content removed through the blowing of warm dry air around the food or by placing the food on screens in the sun on a dry, hot day. Food dehydration can easily be done at home with minimal equipment. Freeze dried food is made through a much more involved factory process that involves pretreatment of the food, a freezing stage that takes the food to very, very low temperatures, and then a two-part drying process that removes virtually all of the water content from the food. Freeze drying is a process that can not be done at home, as it involves sophisticated and expensive equipment. Dried food weighs more than freeze dried food; that is, if two cups of fresh fruit are divided evenly and half is freeze dried and the other simply dried, the freeze dried portion will be much lighter as more water was removed than in the drying process.
A Dried Fruit Basket can be a good hostess gift. Fresh Fruit is more appealing visually but dried fruit can last longer. A dried fruit basket can be a great hostess gift. The key to being a good hostess is uderstanding and catering to the likes of your guest.
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