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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.

As one of the world’s most popular vegetables, sweetcorn is an essential ingredient for so many global cuisines, from European and Asian, to Tex-Mex. It’s ideal for bringing healthy sweetness to a wide range of products and dishes. Team with tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, garlic and onions, or pair with chili, lime and butter – it’s perfect in a wide range of salads, snacks and bakery products. Freeze-dried sweetcorn is also a great natural color, ideal for bringing an attractive, light yellow shade to cereals, energy bars and other functional foods. It’s useful for bringing texture to dishes, and can be included dry in seasoning bags as a sprinkle or meal kit component.

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.