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Glossary · Raw material & format

IQF (Individually Quick-Frozen)

Fruit frozen piece by piece at low temperature before processing. IQF lets producers run year-round and standardize specs, but ice crystal formation can rupture cell walls — sometimes visible in whole-piece formats.

Related terms in Raw material & format

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. Crumble / fines Small fragments and powder produced when freeze-dried fruit breaks during processing, screening, or transport. Powder Freeze-dried fruit milled into a fine powder.

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