Monika's Kandy Orchard

Freeze-dried Cherries

Name: Freeze-dried Cherries
SKU: 204
Availability: InStock

Size

Clear

Category: Fruit

Description

Freeze-dried cherries are a crispy, nutrient-dense snack made by removing nearly all moisture from fresh, pitted cherries while retaining their signature shape, rich color, and bold flavor profile.

What Are They?

Fresh sweet or tart cherries are pitted and flash-frozen before entering a specialized vacuum chamber. Through sublimation, the ice inside the fruit evaporates directly into gas. This leaves behind a hollow, ultra-lightweight cherry with a shatteringly crisp texture that dissolves beautifully on the tongue, bypassing the dense, sticky chewiness of traditional sun-dried cherries.

Key Benefits

Incredible Nutrient Retention: This low-heat process preserves up to 94% to 98% of the fresh cherry’s original nutritional value. They remain an excellent source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, iron, potassium, and active antioxidants like melatonin.
No Added Ingredients: Premium freeze-dried cherries contain exactly one ingredient—cherries—meaning they are naturally free of added sugars, sulfur preservatives, oils, and artificial dyes.
Concentrated Piquant Taste: Eliminating the heavy water content heavily concentrates the fruit’s natural sugars and acids, giving you a powerful, bursting mixture of sweetness and tartness.
Anti-Inflammatory Properties: Regular intake of the antioxidants found in tart cherries helps support muscle recovery, ease joint discomfort from arthritis, and promote better sleep cycles.

Common Ways to Use Them

Everyday Snacking: Eating them directly out of the pouch as a healthy alternative to candy or potato chips.
Breakfast Foods: Stirring whole or crushed pieces into hot oatmeal, cold cereal, granola mixes, waffles, and yogurt bowls.
Baking & Cooking: Folding them seamlessly into muffin batters, scones, pancakes, or chocolate bark without releasing excess bleeding juices or unwanted moisture into your dough.
Smoothies & Shakes: Blending whole pieces directly into morning smoothies or grinding them into a fine fruit powder to act as a vibrant, natural flavoring and color enhancer

Additional information

Size

small – 8 oz, medium – 16 oz, large – 32 oz

Weight

When packaging freeze-dried fruits and candies, fluid ounces measure volume, not weight, which often confuses people because freeze-drying removes up to 90% of a food's water content. This means an identical deli container size will hold drastically different net weights depending on how much the food expands or contracts during the freeze-drying process.

Standard Deli Container Sizes & Average Net Weights
Deli containers are universally measured in fluid ounces (volumetric space). Because freeze-dried foods are highly porous and light, their actual scale weight is a fraction of the container’s volume.

• 8 oz Container (Half-Pint / Small)
o Estimated Net Weight: 1.5 to 2.5 ounces of candy; 0.5 to 1 ounce of fruit.

• 16 oz Container (Pint / Medium)
o Estimated Net Weight: 3.5 to 5 ounces of candy; 1.5 to 2.5 ounces of fruit.

• 32 oz Container (Quart / Large)
o Estimated Net Weight: 7 to 10 ounces of candy; 3 to 5 ounces of fruit.