GuideFreeze-dried vs dehydrated fruit: what's the difference?
Freeze-dried and dehydrated fruit both remove water, but they taste, look and crunch very differently. Here's how each process works and why we freeze-dry.
4 min readFamily farmsWhy fruit picked at peak ripeness tastes better
Some fruit never gets sweeter after it's picked. Here's why we wait for Ontario fruit to ripen fully before it goes into our freeze-dryer and jam pot.
3 min readRecipesSix ways to use freeze-dried fruit
Freeze-dried fruit is a great snack straight from the bag, but it also works in baking, breakfast, drinks and even savoury cooking. Six easy ideas.
3 min readRecipesFreeze-dried strawberry yogurt bark
A no-bake frozen snack with Greek yogurt, honey and crunchy freeze-dried strawberries. Ten minutes of work, then the freezer does the rest.
2 min readRecipesPink strawberry buttercream, no food colouring
Ground freeze-dried strawberries turn plain buttercream bright pink and give it real strawberry flavour. Enough for 12 cupcakes.
2 min readRecipesJam thumbprint cookies
Buttery shortbread cookies with a spoonful of homemade jam in the middle. Try them with Haskap, Strawberry or Saskatoon Berry jam.
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