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The purple sweet potato, or yam, is a real superfood, with a deep, rich purple pigment. It’s a useful functional food, and particularly popular with the healthy eating market. A vibrant, exciting alternative to both ordinary potatoes and orange sweet potatoes, it has a distinctive nutty and smoky taste, with less sweetness than other sweet potato varieties. Substitute everywhere you would use orange sweet potatoes – in soups, stews, and ready meals. It also goes really well with bitter greens like spinach and kale. The crisp purple slices of freeze-dried sweet potato make excellent healthy snacks, either served naturally or lightly salted.

Its bright green flesh dotted with black seeds makes the kiwi fruit an excellent visual ingredient. This vibrant color, along with distinctive flavor and texture, is retained during the freeze-drying process. Packed with vitamin C, freeze-dried kiwi is a healthy ingredient with the benefit of a long shelf life. Freeze-dried kiwi is available in pieces, slices or a powder, with or without the seeds. Slices can be used in a variety of applications, especially bakery and drinks, as they make a great dessert decoration and can be blended easily in beverages. Freeze-dried kiwi also works well with savory dishes, especially seafood and shellfish.

The sweet, but tart flavor and vibrant yellow color of passion fruit makes it a well-loved ingredient. By freeze-drying, the nutrients, color and taste of the fruit is preserved, making it ideal for a wide variety of applications, including bakery, desserts and beverages. Freeze-dried passion fruit granulate is made from the fruit’s purée and maltodextrin, with no E numbers, additives, preservatives or carriers. This creates a versatile, healthy ingredient with the benefit of a long shelf life. Add freeze-dried passion fruit granules to smoothies, cocktails or sweets, to give strong, vibrant color and flavor, or use to decorate desserts.

With a dark green color and bitter, mineral rich taste, spinach is packed with iron and full of Antioxidants. It goes really well with chicken and fish, and is an excellent addition to tarts and savory pastries. Because of its health benefits, freeze-dried spinach is a fantastic functional food, great for adding a natural green color whilst boosting the health benefits of smoothies and detox drinks. As a freeze-dried powder, spinach boasts a rich, vibrant green color, and a more delicate flavor – making it the ideal natural coloring for use in pasta, cereals and bakery recipes. The pieces are particularly useful for adding to instant rice, couscous and noodle products.

With its fragrant, zesty flavor, lemons are perfectly adaptable to sweet or savory applications, as a seasoning or main ingredient. Freeze-drying lemon retains key nutrients, such as vitamin C, as well as the texture, natural color and authentic, tart flavor. Freeze-dried lemons are great for balancing sweetness and complement the flavors of other fruit such as blueberry, lime and orange, as well as herbs, shellfish, meat and ingredients such as ginger. Freeze-dried lemon pieces, slices or powder can be used in a variety of applications. Pieces and slices deliver intense flavor and texture to ready meals – especially those that contain fish or chicken, or in Greek, Mediterranean or Moroccan cuisine. Powder can be used in beverages such as tea.

With its tropical taste and hints of raspberry, the delicious sweetened peach is a popular ingredient. Freeze-drying sweetened peach enables the retention of key nutrients, authentic flavor and its intense, bright yellow hue, more than any other method of drying. Freeze-dried sweetened peach has a light sugar syrup which enhances the flavor. It is perfect for a wide range of applications, especially beverages and cake decoration, due to its vibrant color. It is also a great meal component for savory items, such as North African flavored couscous. Freeze-dried sweetened peach is perfectly partnered with berries, mango and orange, as well as savory items, such as blue cheese and prosciutto.

With its tropical taste and hints of raspberry, the delicious sweetened peach is a popular ingredient. Freeze-drying sweetened peach enables the retention of key nutrients, authentic flavor and its intense, bright yellow hue, more than any other method of drying. Freeze-dried sweetened peach has a light sugar syrup which enhances the flavor. It is perfect for a wide range of applications, especially beverages and cake decoration, due to its vibrant color. It is also a great meal component for savory items, such as North African flavored couscous. Freeze-dried sweetened peach is perfectly partnered with berries, mango and orange, as well as savory items, such as blue cheese and prosciutto.

Distinctive, aromatic and extremely versatile, ginger is an essential ingredient in a huge variety of savory and sweet dishes. From curries and stir fries, to cakes, confectionary and smoothies, it will bring heat and depth of flavor to all kinds of products. Team with mango and pineapple in healthy smoothies, or partner up with chicken, pork and green vegetables. Ginger is also prized for its health benefits, from helping digestion and aiding weight loss, to reducing inflammation and preventing cancer. This makes freeze-dried ginger ideal for adding to teas, smoothies and healthy eating products. It is available in pieces, as well as powder.

With a distinctive, delicate, onion flavor, leeks are a healthy, versatile ingredient, with a mild hint of sweetness. Leeks can be used in a wide range of meat and vegetable dishes, and go particularly well with bacon, chicken, fish, carrot, potato and mushrooms. It’s a classic ingredient in soups, casseroles and tarts. Leek also works with dairy products, particularly butter and cream, in soufflés and gratins. It makes an excellent companion to a range of herbs, including thyme, tarragon, chives, garlic, mustard and sage. Freeze-dried leek is perfect for bringing a delicate, aromatic onion flavor to ready-made rice dishes, sauces and soup mixtures.

With their naturally sweet taste, vibrant red color and year-round availability, strawberries are a popular fruit. Freeze-drying them locks in nutrients, sweetness and color – they don’t darken like dried strawberries do. Strawberry slices and pieces can be added to drinks, breakfast cereals or as an inclusion. They mix well with banana and other berries, and are ideal for chocolate inclusions, especially white chocolate. Freeze-dried strawberry works well with ice cream and brings an acidic touch to confectionary applications. They are also great for savory applications – try in a salad with a balsamic glaze and feta. Strawberry powder is perfect for delivering taste in beverages. Slices are great as a snack on their own, or work well coated in chocolate.

Naturally sweet and with a vibrant green color, peas are a versatile, familiar vegetable that teams perfectly with carrots, leeks, potatoes and broccoli, and the herbal flavors of mint and tarragon. They’re the ideal companion for all kinds of meat and fish dishes. They work especially well alongside beef, salty seafood and bacon, and add a sweet counterbalance to ham. Peas are also an excellent addition to soups and dried ingredients such as noodles, risottos and rice, providing great color and flavor. Freeze-dried peas are also an effective way of adding healthy, vegan protein to sporting products and athletic meals.

Hailed as a superfood, wolfberries (or goji berries) are packed with vitamin C, Antioxidants, amino acids and minerals – making them one of the most nutritionally rich fruits available. By freeze-drying wolfberries, these valuable nutrients are retained along with a sweet taste, akin to raisins and cranberries. Freeze-dried wolfberries are perfect for a number of sweet and savory applications, such as breakfast foods, sports/energy items, desserts, confectionary, beverages and inclusions. They are perfect in soups or added to porridge. They can also be enjoyed as a healthy standalone snack, as the freeze-drying process gives wolfberries a crispy texture that melts in the mouth.

We love clementines for their pleasant, sweet, zesty flavor, which is slightly less acidic than an orange. This tangy taste is captured perfectly in the freeze-drying process, along with the clementine’s texture, shape and bright orange color. Freeze-dried clementine can be paired with a variety of fruits, vegetables, meat and seafood, working particularly well with lemon, mint and onions. It is available with or without the skin – the skin bringing a bitter and stronger taste. Use freeze-dried clementine pieces in chocolate, mixed with baked gingerbread crumb for example, or in powdered form to create refreshing soft beverages and cocktails, or in buttercream for baked applications. Larger pieces provide a fruit explosion in ice cream.

The hardest, sharpest member of the citrus family, the lime is incredibly versatile. Its strong, intense flavor and vibrant color is preserved in the freeze-drying process, making it the perfect ingredient for a broad range of applications. The lime’s sourness and bitterness make it the perfect pairing with sweet flavors – the caramel in cola, the condensed milk in key lime pie, or butternut squash. Add freeze-dried lime pieces to savory meal components, such as rice or couscous, to give a citrus flair. Introduce it in confectionary applications, such as dark chocolate inclusions. Or simply add a freeze-dried lime slice to beverages for instant flavor – it rapidly rehydrates when added to liquid.

We all love raspberries for their intense tart taste and rich, red color. The freeze-drying process retains both and allows them to be used in a wide range of applications, from breakfast foods and baked goods, to snacks and confectionary. Choose whole or pieces for texture and visual appeal in ice cream and biscuits. Freeze-dried raspberry powder is perfect for beverages, mixes and decoration. It blends perfectly with other sweet-sour fruits such as apricot, blackberry and pineapple. Freeze-dried raspberries are ideal for inclusion in white chocolate, as they balance the fruit’s acidity and showcase its color. Freeze-dried raspberry can be included in a blend with one or two other fruits, such as sour cherry or strawberry.

Red apples are well loved for their sweet, mild flavor and crisp texture. Freeze-drying locks in delicious taste and creates a better appearance than other drying methods. This creates a nutritious ingredient with a long shelf life, which is perfect for a wide range of applications, from breakfast foods and baked goods, to drinks, snacks and confectionary. Freeze-dried red apples are incredibly versatile and can be combined with other flavors, such as cinnamon, and fruits like blackberry, blueberry and pear. They pair well with meat products too, such as bacon and black pudding. Freeze-dried red apples make an excellent standalone snack, as the freeze-drying process creates a melt-in-the-mouth ingredient.

Sweet and fruity, with creamy floral flavors, mango is a truly versatile ingredient. When freeze-dried, exotic mango retains its natural color and true taste – which lends itself to an array of sweet and savory applications. From breakfast cereals and bars, to baked goods, confectionary and drinks, freeze-dried mango can be used in a wide variety of applications, or created as a standalone healthy snack, as it offers a crisp, melt-in-the-mouth texture. It is a sweet ingredient often added to items to replace sugar. A classic partner for freeze-dried mango is bold-flavored lime, and sweet fruits such as apple, apricot, peach and pineapple. Mango also pairs well with chili, coriander, cardamom, mint and cumin, and makes a great accompaniment for shellfish.