Freeze dried food

[Stone14]

Anyone know if it works out cheaper using home dehydrator for meat and veg etc over using pre-freeze dried meat and veg for making lighter-carry meals? Also worth while, as it takes time and prep to diy it.

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[Stone14]

I'd rather not buy premium prices for summit2eat and the likes so dehydrated or freeze dry seems to be the best options for carrying food. Protein is my main concern as I know you can get plenty dried carb sources from rice packets.

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[Robson Valley]

Freeze-dried food is a special kind of food dehydration. Frozen, much of the air is pumped out of the tank at low temperature. The "food water" evaporates from solid to gas (sublimation). It's supposed to maintain the structure of the food better. But, you're going to rehydrate it, cook it, chew the hello out of it then your digestive system will take everything apart. The little building block biomolecules are all you can absorb anyway.

In any case, you need to pay attention to eating all the needed biomolecules. You must have fats. Protein is fine if you get all 20 common amino acids found in protein. Corn/maize used to be really poor in Lysine, and essential amino acid that you can't make. Stuff like that to be mindful of. Carbs as starches are easily found in bulk provided that you lace it with proteins and fats.

 

[Stone14]

Freeze-dried food is a special kind of food dehydration. Frozen, much of the air is pumped out of the tank at low temperature. The "food water" evaporates from solid to gas (sublimation). It's supposed to maintain the structure of the food better. But, you're going to rehydrate it, cook it, chew the hello out of it then your digestive system will take everything apart. The little building block biomolecules are all you can absorb anyway.

In any case, you need to pay attention to eating all the needed biomolecules. You must have fats. Protein is fine if you get all 20 common amino acids found in protein. Corn/maize used to be really poor in Lysine, and essential amino acid that you can't make. Stuff like that to be mindful of. Carbs as starches are easily found in bulk provided that you lace it with proteins and fats.

Yeah true. I've seen freeze dried mixed fruit and mixed veg as well as broth mix id imagine cover alot of micro nutrient bases. (As well as mixed seed and nut packs). Id also be taking a daily multi vit tablet when out on long just for the reassurance.

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[knowledge=gain]

You must have fats.

contra to popular belief an ye so-called health specialists say when they so no fat this no fat that fats are bad for you

well it turns out that natural fats like lard, bacon fat and natural butters and-such in the right proportions are actually good for us

all the processed and non natural stuff like margarine and-such with added rubbish and chemicals are what are bad for us

 

[Robson Valley]

Vegetable fats are entirely OK. The margarine that you disparage is made from olive oil in my house. I have olive, canola, peanut, sesame and a mix for deep frying.

 

[TLM]

Partially hydrogenated fats contained so called trans-fats, those were used in the early days of margarine making. Presently almost all should either be natural or fully hydrogenated so no trans-fats. Actually butter contains naturally some of those...

Almost all vegetable oils are fit for human consumption, olive oil being one of the oldest known. So far it has not caused any massive deaths.

 

[knowledge=gain]

The margarine that you disparage is made from olive oil

processed olive oil has been proven to be not be as good as portrayed

i read an article on it a long time back

 

[Robson Valley]

The best freeze-dried food that I ever ate, bar none, was peas. They looked perfect, rattling from the bag into the pot. The taste was genuine.

When the pomace olive oil is extracted with hexane (which is then recycled), suits me just fine. I've mislaid my last tub of margarine so I've been cooking in plain olive oil for many months now. Looks nice, decanted from the tin into an old Kraken bottle.