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Trader Joe's Freeze Dried Strawberries



Okay! We will start at the beginning, which means what we've got in the house right now. Trader Joe's Freeze Dried Strawberries, unsweetened and unsulfured. Pretty simple. PRETTY AWESOME.

Ingredients: Freeze dried strawberries.

How do they taste?: Really, really good. Four out of four people in our family like them. They taste like...strawberries. Less squishy. Otherwise, similar. Squish isn't a flavor, but you know. It adds a certain SOMETHING to the fresh berry, right?

What we love:
(1) They aren't sweetened, so that's nice if you are trying not to eat added sugar, obvs.
(2) Unsulfured. In our opinion, this always tastes better. I (Shin Ae) am always put in mind of the very bowels of hell when I taste sulfur, which is not masked by the flavor of any food, no way, no how. I even get really sad when I taste it in wine, which is pretty much always. HATE SULFUR. Anyway, none of that here, so that's a win.
(3) Our kids like these. Freeze-dried fruit in general goes over much better with our child who hates fruit and we've had success getting him to like the flavors of fruits, helping him to transition to actual fresh fruit after a while. So, even the younger, fruit & veggie resistant child will eat these and like them. I have to ration them for the older one because he will eat them all and move on to the next bag and eat all of those ones, too. They're great for packing in a lunch, or just serving up to the munchkins whenever.

What we don't necessarily love:
(1) These are NOT organic. Strawberries are sprayed pretty heavily, we hear, so these would be a good candidate for a change.
(2) No information at all about allergens on the back, which would bum us out if we needed to worry about stuff like that.

Cautions:
(1) Do not eat the dessicant packet. You will be tempted, but don't do that. It says not to right on the back of the bag.
What can you do with this?:
(1) Just eat them.
(2) Top stuff: yogurt, oatmeal, cereal.
(3) That's all we've thought of, actually. Do you have ideas?

Price:
$3.49 for 1.2 oz (34 g), which is equivalent to 12 oz of fresh berries, the people tell us. And hey! We didn't need to cut off a bunch of stems & weird parts, and throw out a moldy one or two.

Have you tried these? Do you like them? Did we miss any information you were looking for? Other thoughts or suggestions?
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