Emergency Food Storage: Freeze Drying vs. Dehydration

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Emergency Food Storage Freeze Drying vs.
Dehydration
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• There are several ways for emergency food
  storage. Freeze drying and Dehydration are two
  popular methods for emergency food storage.
  Among all the food storage techniques freeze
  drying is the best because of its advantage along
  with proper effectiveness and efficiency.
• If you have never attempted freeze drying process
  for food storage you may understand that how it
  varies from other storage methods especially
  dehydration. Both are used to protect foodstuffs
  for satisfying long time and emergency needs with
  realistic usability.

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• Freeze dried food and food dehydration methods
  utilize limitlessly distinctive strategies to
  "dry" out food. Both are made utilizing
  safeguarding techniques that annihilate the
  humidity and perishable substance out of food,
  keeping it from ruining for an unimaginably long
  time. These are uniquely dissimilar to each other
  from multiple points of view. The following
  comparative discussion proves that freeze drying
  is the best food storage technique for emergency
  food storage.

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Food Dehydration Technique

• Food dehydration is prepared by subjecting
  foodstuffs to high temperature. Commonly this
  method is applied sun drying or air drying in
  high temperature. It can be utilized within home
  storing supplies due to its long timeframe with
  genuine usability. Dehydrated foods can be
  utilized for day by day cooking and eating. In
  case of emergency needs for instance, natural
  catastrophe and earthquake situations dehydration
  technique is used for preserving foodstuffs.

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• Practically, tastes and flavors will not remain
  unchanged. The dehydration methodology changes
  the taste and composition inside the food. To
  enjoy the food need much of their unique flavor
  and taste.
• They additionally have a chewier composition.
  Concerning taste, you can get slightly changed
  flavors from dehydrated foods, in the same way as
  sun dried tomatoes, in the event that you cook
  them for quite a while.

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• Nutritional values and vitamins the air and sun
  drying process likewise reduce a significant part
  of the wholesome esteem out of food.

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• The cost of food dehydration process is
  comparatively lower than freeze drying method.
  Since dehydration refers to drying out foods so
  it requires less expense to preserve.

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Freeze Dried Food Technique

• Freeze dried technique is scientific food
  preservation technique which is known as
  lyophilisation or cryodesiccation. By using
  this Freeze Dried Food Technique for food
  preservation technique perishable substance of
  food becomes imperishable and endures for long
  term usage and transportation.
• Freeze drying method involves four complementary
  stages for preservation. The first stage is
  pretreatment which includes product formulation,
  ingredient concentration, decreasing high vapor
  pressures and increasing surface area prior to
  freezing foods.

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• The nutritional values and vitamins also remain
  constant as it was earlier of applying freeze
  drying technique on the food for preservation.

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• From above arguments and discussion it is proved
  that freeze drying is the best method of
  emergency food storage for using long timeframe
  or any emergency situation. Although this process
  is slightly expensive but it provides you natural
  tastes and flavors along with unchanged vitamins
  and nutritional values.

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