Dehydrating food is considered one of our oldest—if not oldest—method for preserving food. For as long as our species has been gathering, foraging, and throwing spears at wild beasts, we have been ...

Drying or “dehydrating” helps preserve food by removing enough moisture from the produce that bacteria, yeast and molds cannot grow. While historically the sun and wind were used, nowadays home ovens ...

You might say that sales skyrocketed afterward. Freeze-dried foods were introduced during the Gemini program to supplement the dehydrated and bite-sized offerings. These were coated with either ...