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Whole piece

Freeze-dried fruit sold as intact pieces — whole strawberries, whole blueberries, whole mango chunks. Whole-piece formats command premium pricing and demand tighter breakage control.

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. 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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