Tag moisture

Gloved hands slide freshly cut, peeled 034 avocado slices into a single layer on stainless trays lined up along a preparation table, with a tray trolley waiting for the freezer behind.

Freeze-Dried Fruit

How do you keep freeze-dried avocado crisp, green and fresh-tasting for 12–24 months?

Four controls do it, and each one is set before the fruit ever reaches your warehouse: firm-ripe fruit, fast freezing straight after…

An importer's QC technician compares freeze-dried cashew kernels from an arrived carton with the approved pre-shipment sample.

Freeze-Dried Fruit

Which specs keep freeze-dried cashews crisp, clean and shelf-ready, and what should the lot COA show?

Four numbers carry most of the weight: moisture ≤5.0%, water activity ≤0.30, free fatty acids ≤1.0% and peroxide value ≤2.0 meq The…

A QA technician spreads crushed freeze-dried jackfruit thinly on the pan of a halogen moisture analyzer, with a water-activity cup ready beside it.

Freeze-Dried Fruit

What moisture and water activity should freeze-dried jackfruit have, and what should the COA show?

Export-grade freeze-dried jackfruit should be released at moisture ≤5.0% and water activity (aw) ≤0.30. At FruitBuys partner facilities it typically comes off…

A QA worker probes the core of a frozen jackfruit bulb at the door of a blast freezer before the trays go to the freeze-dryer.

Freeze-Dried Fruit

How is freeze-dried jackfruit produced and controlled so the bulk lot matches the approved sample?

A container of freeze-dried jackfruit matches the approved sample when six steps run to fixed numbers, from 18–24° Brix at intake to…

Gloved hands spread a thin layer of ground freeze-dried mangosteen on the aluminium pan of a halogen moisture analyzer.

Freeze-Dried Fruit

What moisture, water activity and microbial limits should freeze-dried mangosteen meet?

Four numbers in the contract keep a mangosteen programme safe: moisture ≤5.0%, water activity (aw) ≤0.30, total plate count ≤10⁴ CFU/g and…