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Sour cherry is a fruit defined by its acidity even when fresh. In freeze-drying the water leaves and the acid stays; what remains is sharper than the fresh fruit. It is a profile with both admirers a…

Magic Ball differs from the rest of the series in how it is made. Where the others are sliced and dried as they are, here the apple is first turned into a purée, shaped into balls and dried in that f…

Strawberry is the fruit flavour children recognise most readily, which makes it the most easily accepted variety in the Magic Ball range. Meeting an unfamiliar product form, a child is more willing t…

Among the three Magic Ball flavours, raspberry is the sharpest. When raspberry acidity is layered over the soft sweetness of apple purée, a two-ended profile emerges: sweet first, then a tart finish.…

Crispy Cubes add a third format alongside slices and balls. Where a slice suits decoration through its broad surface and fragility, and a ball suits children's snacking through its robustness, a cube…

A cut apple browns within minutes as its enzymes meet the air. Traditional drying usually relies on agents such as sulphites to prevent that browning. In freeze-drying the process begins from frozen,…

Strawberry is the fruit where the difference made by freeze-drying is most visible. It is juicy and delicate; dried with hot air its colour darkens, its shape shrivels and much of its aroma disappear…

Sweetcorn is the only item in the Freeze Fresh range that is not a fruit, which makes it the answer to a different need. The kernels carry their own natural sugar but are not as sweet as the fruits; …

An orange slice is a format that carries the cross-section of the fruit exactly as it is: translucent segments in the centre, a ring of peel at the edge. That cross-section survives drying, making th…

The dried fig that comes to mind is sticky, soft and intensely sweet — the texture of a fig dried in the sun or with hot air. A freeze-dried fig is entirely different: there is no stickiness, the pro…

At the centre of a kiwi slice sits a white core ringed by black seeds. That pattern is what makes the fruit recognisable, and freeze-drying preserves it intact; dried with hot air, kiwi shifts toward…

Banana has the most different structure in the range. Where strawberry and raspberry are almost entirely water, banana contains starch; when the water is drawn out what remains is not a hollow skelet…