DRIEDFRESH

It all started from becoming tired of eating mushy Freeze Dried meals on ocean racing yachts. We visualised building a better drying machine that dries from fresh without destroying the plant's integrity so we could re-hydrate back to near fresh and preserve 99% of the aromas, texture and nutrients. We also wanted to dry on site in the beautiful pacific island - fruits like Pineapple, Mango, Papaya, Banana, Noni, Turmeric, Ginger and offer them and their health benefits to the world. Twenty five years later after much resource, trial and error, with technical and logistical input and support from NZ Plant and Food research institute, the Australian and NZ universities, a few world famous scientists and importantly left field masterful thinkers - we have done it - food dried and preserved to be brought back as fresh as the day it was picked... We are about providing drying capacity in our containerised OVDMA vacuum dryers to growers or grower co-operatives and food drying businesses or..