Freeze-Dried Fruit The season ends. The crunch doesn’t.

Freeze-drying removes most of the water, leaving the fruit light and crisp, with its recognisable taste. No flavouring or syrup is added.

Approximately 200–225g of fresh fruit goes into one 20g pouch. Freeze-drying removes most of the water, leaving 20g of freeze-dried fruit. Exact input varies by fruit, season and batch.

Because freeze-drying removes water in a very different way.

The fruit is frozen first. Under vacuum, the frozen water leaves directly as vapour — a process called sublimation.

That leaves behind a dry, porous structure instead of the dense, flexible texture associated with conventional dried fruit.

• Mango Crisp and light
• Jamun Airy with a tart crunch
• Pineapple Bright with a firm snap

Same fruit. Completely different texture.

Why freeze-dried fruit is crisp, in depth

Both remove water. The biggest difference is how they remove it.

Conventional dehydration typically uses warm air or heat over time. Freeze-drying freezes the fruit first, then removes the frozen water directly as vapour under vacuum through a process called sublimation.

Because freeze-drying avoids the prolonged heat exposure typical of conventional hot-air drying, it generally preserves heat-sensitive nutrients and bioactive compounds better. It also does a better job of protecting the fruit’s colour, aroma and porous structure.

• Dehydrated fruit Typically dried with warm air or heat over time. More heat exposure. Usually denser, softer and chewier.
• Freeze-dried fruit Frozen first, then dried under vacuum. Generally better retention of heat-sensitive nutrients and bioactive compounds. Light, porous and crisp.

Less heat. Often better retention. Completely different crunch.

Retention varies by fruit, nutrient and processing conditions.

And ASTROVE keeps the fruit simple.

• One fruit ingredient
• No added sugar
• No added preservatives
• No syrup
• No coating

The full comparison, with sources

Fruit — and what it takes to remove almost all of its water.

A 20g ASTROVE pouch starts with a great deal more fresh fruit than it finishes with.

Then comes the difficult part.

• The fruit is frozen
• Pressure is reduced
• Frozen water leaves through sublimation
• The finished fruit is packed dry, light and crisp

ASTROVE keeps the formula deliberately simple: one fruit ingredient, no added sugar, no added preservatives.

You are not paying for a longer ingredient list. You are paying for the fruit and the process required to turn fresh fruit into a shelf-stable crunch.

The pouch is light because the water is gone. The fruit input is not.

How freeze-drying actually works · What is freeze-dried fruit?

• Alphonso Mango Rich. Fragrant. Naturally sweet. The easiest place to start.
• Jamun Deep. Tart. Slightly wild. Probably the one you have never experienced like this before.
• Pineapple Bright. Tangy. Aggressively crisp. The sharpest crunch of the three.

Cannot choose? That is why the First Harvest Trio exists.

Because ASTROVE is not three flavours of the same snack. It is three different fruits with three completely different experiences. The First Harvest Trio lets you experience all three at once.

• Alphonso Mango 20g
• Jamun 20g
• Pineapple 20g

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No.

Nothing is added to make the fruit sweeter. No added sugar. No syrup. No artificial sweetener.

The sugars present occur naturally in the fruit.

Sometimes you should eat fresh fruit. ASTROVE is for all the times fresh fruit is inconvenient.

• No washing
• No peeling
• No cutting
• No refrigeration before opening
• No bruised banana at the bottom of your bag
• No pineapple juice running down your hands

Fresh fruit when you can. ASTROVE when you cannot.

Yes — until you open it.

Freeze-dried fruit is porous and readily absorbs humidity from the air. Sealed, the crunch keeps. Once the pouch is open, it begins to soften.

Open it. Eat it. That is what a single 20g pouch is for.

One pouch is one sitting, so the crunch never has to wait.

Because fruit does not normally behave like this.

• Mango Alphonso Mango that crunches
• Jamun Jamun that almost disappears when you bite it
• Pineapple Pineapple that snaps

One ingredient created the entire experience.

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