freeze dried fruit

axel rose

Hi,
My son is crazy aboout the freeze dried fruit that you find in the special k red berries cereals. He will pick out the berries and ditch the flakes (granted at 2 years of age theres little reasoning with him).

I bought regular dried red berries but no joy . I think its the crunchy texture he loves. I checked out the H&B health food stores to little joy. Has any boardsie come accross freeze dried red berries?

Mellor

You could by a dehydrator

axel rose

a wha?

Alun

axel rose wrote: »

a wha?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_dehydrator

huskerdu

Supervalu in Churchtown sell tubs of them. They were in a display of tubs of all sorts of nice things, over the open freezer the last time I was there. Not cheap.

I like Tesco Strawberry crisp cereal, and I pick out the freeze dried fruit and let the kids have it. ( Correction - the kids make me do this and I pretend that its my choice, so I don't loose too much face)

dh0661

huskerdu wrote: »

( Correction - the kids make me do this and I pretend that its my choice, so I don't loose too much face)

LOL - I'm getting to that stage myself.

markhumphrys

Dunnes Stores sell freeze dried strawberries in their store near Imaginosity - but they aren't cheap, something like €5 for a good sized tub (however many of the cereals with the freeze dried fruit in aren't that cheap either)

Minder

A dehydrator won't make freeze dried fruit. Freeze dried fruit is made by driving the moisture out of frozen fruit by using very low pressures using a chamber vacuum machine. The low pressures cause the water to turn from solid (ice) into vapour without turning into a liquid first. So the original shape of the fruit is preserved. Look up lyosphilisation for all the blurb.

As for buying freeze dried fruit, www.Infusions4chefs.co.uk sell the Ferran & Albert lyo-sabores range in the UK, but its very expensive.