Uses of Freeze-Dried Sweet Cherries

Health conscience and exotic, exquisite edible gift-giving come together to shape the sweet-cherry realms of Icelandic elves and frontier re-enactors In short, what do some of those healthful ‘uses' look like? Does everything good for sweet cherries also accrue to their deepfreeze Comrades, and how can these benefits then be put to work? Consider:

The Freeze-Drying Magic

And yet: a little about what it is:For any readers who are the Luddites I know you are, here's the deal on how freeze-drying works: by cooking the fruit slowly to a very high temperature using indirect dry heat, all of the water is extracted. (‘And this is why’, in case you don’t crack open a jar of the stuff and take a taste every 12 months, as I do, ‘after 12 months a jar of freeze-dried strawberries tastes like … um, strawberries! Freeze-drying enables us to eat our strawberries all year long – not just compost them, or rot them.'

A Healthy Snack

But their most common use is to eat them, dry as can be – straight from the pouch. Healthy, convenient, guilt-free, the freeze-dried Bing cherry is loaded with vitamins, antioxidants and fibre: great for dealing with your hunger pangs on a mountain top trail, or in the early afternoon at your desk, out of a little brown paper bag, on a road trip.

A Boost for Breakfast

Here's a snappy afternoon pick-me-up during Eating Season: give your breath some sweet cherry zing. Stir a spoonful of sweet freeze-dried cherries from your pantry's stash into your breakfast cereal, your oatmeal or your yogurt. Your tastebuds will thank you, and each bite will deliver you an antioxidant's dose of good stuff. Sweet-tart dried sweet cherries match up well to just about any breakfast, dessert or salty snack.

Baking Bliss

For bakers who enjoy adjusting sweetness, freeze-dried sweet cherries make another good choice: they have a wonderful, gritty texture for use in muffins, scones or cookies. Their crumbly texture means they seamlessly melds with the batter, and you will not end up with moist sweets.

Culinary Creativity

They are the most versatile, you can even have them savoury without any sugar; they are beautiful in a salad lightly sweetened, as a sauce or glaze with some meat dish.

Smoothie Sensation

Freeze-dried sweet (tart) fruit also makes a nice addition to smoothies if you are one to partake. They blend up well, and your smoothie will taste like cherry (blueberry) pie! Nice with a few other fruits, a little yoghurt and a splash of almond milk.

A Garnish with Flair

Sprinkle on freeze-dried cherries for visual depth as well as taste They jazz up a drink, but could also dress up a dessert, or a cheese board.

A Thoughtful Gift

Forssells: Ripe, sweet cherries freeze-dried is the ultimate gift for anyone [to whom] you want to open or cultivate relations with. A basket complete with your personal touch – like an extra topping of cherries freeze-dried – might seem like a trivial gift, but it's definitely one with a clear statement as a concern to the receiver's state of health.

FAQ

1. What are the health benefits of freeze-dried sweet cherries?

Not a single nutrient, such as vitamin or antioxidants, dietary fibres or other healthful compounds, are lost in the process of sweet cherries becoming dried cherries. All the goodness that promotes a healthier heart and boosts your immune system, improves digestive health and much more is still there in freeze-dried sweet cherries.

2. Are freeze-dried sweet cherries suitable for all diets?

Yes, but yes and yes too; vegans can have their sweet cherries – they are, after all gluten-free and paleo, as well as low-sugar, zero preservatives and so on.

3. How long do freeze-dried sweet cherries last?

Packed in an airless pouch and kept in a cool, dry place, freeze-dried sweet cherries will remain edible for two years, and almost as sweet as they were seconds after they were plucked.

4. Can freeze-dried sweet cherries be rehydrated for recipes?

These can be hydrated but they're best stored and shipped as sweet cherries like those eaten fresh are freeze-dried as snack foods and in dishes that don't require rehydration.

5. Do freeze-dried sweet cherries taste like fresh cherries?

Sweet-tart freeze-dried cherries have the flavour profile of fresh fruit with an enjoyable crunch.

From Our Freeze N Dried Content Team, Let's Sum Up!

Balance them on a protein bar, swirl them into salad dressing or soup, use them to sweeten retail goods or, for Shinto Fine Food(s), enterprise-level gift baskets. As a processed crop, MA-010's freeze-dried sweet cherry is a backdoor nutrient-dump to any macro- or micronutrient-rich biome or meal, snack or gifting platform. Not only does it amplify cool, it loots it, and then aromatically dowses your palate with the pleasantly sanguine surge of a mouthful of vitamins leavened by a shit tonne of the soothed social-eases that make up heart-healthy antioxidants. They are definitely party-ready, but light enough to toss in your backpack or whatever this era's terran container for survival survives in For us, this resoundingly abundant form of health socialising, baked into an energy shot for its mouthfeel alone, is enough of a reason to caffeinate. If what you're looking for is the one ingredient – healthy; tasty and, for whatever your appetite fetishes run, wacky – that you can four-square play around with in your next recipe for a hedonist snack or baked edible or whatever, it might be a tiny, multihued, drumstick annular globule: a free-dried sweet cherry.