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Freeze dried food was actually invented by the Incas. As I understand it, they would harvest potatoes and take them to the mountaintops (as the colder temperatures and drier winds prevailed) and as each layer of the potato froze, they would peel off that thin layer as the moisture sublimated from that thin layer, that part of the potato was dry and thus preserved. Don't believe me, though.

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