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A technician spreads a ground sample of freeze-dried strawberries on a halogen moisture analyser, with a water-activity cup ready beside it.

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Freeze-Dried Strawberry Specification: Moisture, Water Activity, Microbiology and the COA

A freeze-dried strawberry specification fixes moisture at ≤5.0% (typically 2.0–3.5%), water activity at ≤0.30 (typically 0.15–0.25), ready-to-eat microbiology with Salmonella not detected…

A technician caps a sample cup of ground freeze-dried soursop for the water-activity test that confirms Aw ≤0.30.

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What should a freeze-dried soursop COA show before you accept a lot?

A COA you can act on shows six results from an independent laboratory, each against a written limit, and a lot code…

A QA staff member compares freeze-dried longan from a new lot with the approved retained sample: ivory to light cream with a pale beige rim at the opening.

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What moisture, water activity and COA should freeze-dried longan ship with?

Write moisture ≤5.0% and water activity (aw) ≤0.30 into the contract, and hold your supplier to a release target inside it. FruitBuys…

Staff peel fresh longan by hand and push out each seed so the whole aril goes onto the dryer tray in a single layer.

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How many kilos of fresh longan make 1 kg of freeze-dried longan?

8 to 9.5 kg of whole fresh longan go into every kilogram of freeze-dried longan: about 8–8.5 kg in the dry main…

b2b qa review of freeze dried pink guava moisture and aw specifications in vietnam

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Freeze-Dried Guava Moisture and Water Activity: What Buyers Must Verify

Freeze-dried guava can look crisp in a sample pouch and still carry moisture risk in bulk. A pink guava wedge may pass…