Read in Español Sign Up for Industry Notes
Freeze-Dried-Fruitcom
The field guide to freeze-dried fruit quality, processing, and market trends.
Glossary · Raw material & format

Crumble / fines

Small fragments and powder produced when freeze-dried fruit breaks during processing, screening, or transport. Some breakage is normal; tolerance is defined by buyer spec.

Related terms in Raw material & format

IQF (Individually Quick-Frozen) Fruit frozen piece by piece at low temperature before processing. Pre-treatment Any step applied to fruit between intake and freezing — washing, cutting, dipping, blanching, or acidifying. Brix A measurement of dissolved solids — mostly sugars — in fruit juice, expressed in degrees. Whole piece Freeze-dried fruit sold as intact pieces — whole strawberries, whole blueberries, whole mango chunks. Powder Freeze-dried fruit milled into a fine powder.

Articles that use this term

← Back to all terms