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Wholesome Freeze-Dried Soups: Comfort in a Pouch
Wholesome Freeze-Dried Soups: Comfort in a Pouch
People who are too busy to make healthy wholefood meals, especially those who don’t have time for the nutritional benefits of fresh soups. But that’s no longer the case. Meet the modern freeze-dried soup: wholefood convenience and nutrition combined in the classic comfort food of all time, the hotbowl-of-soup flavour sensation.Freeze-dried soups offer nutritious flavour-and-soul salvation for everyone who needs convenient wholefood nutrition in a hurry and wants to keep spending as little time as possible in their kitchen. This article gives an overview of freeze-dried soups including their benefits, how they are made, and the different flavours available, in a celebration of why they are fast becoming a pantry staple.
The Freeze-Drying Process: Preserving Goodness
To achieve this, we use a process called lyophilisation, commonly known as ‘freeze-drying’. (To properly do this, we need to make the soup extremely cold, and then vacuum the surrounding air so that the ice inside the suspension of soup will convert directly from ice to vapour — sublimation. This is the end of the destination called lyophilisation. Although this notes how things are done, it is not lyophilisation itself.) At the end of this process is a lightweight, shelf-stable product. You add water, and, in minutes, you have the aromas and flavour of home-cooked soup.
Benefits of Freeze-Dried Soups
Long Shelf Life: Year after year, thanks to the absence of water, freeze-dried soups stay intact as when they were produced.
Nutrient Retention: Freeze-drying locks in vitamins and minerals to make sure these soups aren’t just easy on your schedule but also easy on your diet.
Convenience and portable: Not requiring refrigeration and light-weighted are all advantages of freeze-dried soups, which are ideal to bring along when camping and hiking trips, travelling, or in busy work days.
So Many Choices: From traditional vegetable and chicken noodle, to decadent international flavours, and even sweet varieties – there’s a soup that’s right for you!
Simple Preperation: Just add hot water and rice instantly become a nutreous hot meal!
A Spectrum of Flavors
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For every soup in the world, there’s a freez-dried version. From beef stew to Thai curry soup to tomato soup. There are brands out there that emphasise using non-GMO, sustainable and high-quality ingredients, many of which are vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free. There really is a soup for everyone.
Incorporating Freeze-Dried Soups into Your Diet
But most of us don’t have time for such refined stockpiling, either. So freeze-dried soups are for you too: water, a stove or microwave, less than 15 minutes, and you’ll have some pretty decent nourishment – no matter the outdoor adventure you’re preparing for, no matter the office lunch, no matter your busy weekday dinner. Having a cupboard stocked with freeze-dried soups is like inventing a healthy option that’s always waiting, and that is less likely to tempt you into something less healthy. Or you might try letting some fresh vegetables soak in a soup’s rehydrating water, so that they swell and add a bit of crunch and some extra vitamins; with a leafy green, such as chard or kale, you won’t even need the crunchy part.