Dried Vegetables are nutritious and easy to store, use, and take along.
We have over 40 different types of air dried vegetables and 27 types of freeze dried vegetables, packaged in high quality zipper pouches.
- Many make excellent dry snacks as they are, right out of the bag.
- Each type of dried vegetable hydrates quickly. The air dried vegetables need to be simmered, whereas a quick soak does the trick for the freeze-dried vegetables.
- All dried vegetables are A-grade, premium. FDA guidelines are followed and the drying processes are audited through the NFPA-SAFE program with The National Food Processors Association.
- Varieties and cuts of dried vegetables not listed on our website may be available by special order in the large box sizes, please contact us.
What is freeze dried? Freeze dried food is placed in a refrigerated vacuum, where, without thawing, it is dehydrated — ice disappears in the form of escaping water vapor. Cell structure remains intact, which results in excellent retention of flavor, color, shape, and nutritional value. Freeze dried food can be eaten as is, or hydrated quickly.
What is air dried? Our air dried vegetables, often generically called dehydrated vegetables, are specifically made by subjecting vegetables to heat, resulting in water evaporation. This process costs less than freeze dried. The physical size of the vegetables are reduced when air dried. When cooked, these vegetables hydrate nicely and often remain intact (versus crumbling apart), making them ideal for liquid cooking applications such as homemade soups and dips. There are no additives to our air dried vegetables — no preservatives such as sulfites.
Common uses: Camping food, backpacking food, survival food, snacks, and quick-and-easy home cooking. Our dried vegetables are used in salads, vegetable trail mixes, soups, casseroles, and camping meals.
Gluten Free: Our air dried and freeze dried vegetables are gluten free.
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Dried Dill
Dill weed is a unique perennial herbal plant in the sense that both its leaves as well as seeds are used as a seasoning. It is the member of the Umbelliferae family, a large group of flowering herbs and spices, which include caraway, parsley, cumin, fennel, etc. Botanically,it belongs within the family of Apiaceae, of the genus: Anethum and scientifically named as Anethum graveolens.The plant requires warm summer climates with well-drained fertile soil to flourish. The plant requires warm summer climates with well-drained fertile soil to flourish. It grows 1 to 2 feet in height and features dark-green leaves (sprigs) that are wispy and fern-like, have a soft texture with rich pleasant aroma and sweet taste. Dill seeds, used as spice, are similar in taste and appearance to “caraway seeds.” They feature light brown color, oval shape with vertical ridges and flavor that is aromatic, sweet, and citrus, but also slightly bitterly.
Dill herb has all the characters to consider it has one of the most valuable functional foods.
100 g of dill weed provides only 43 calories, but its phyto-nutrients profile is no less than any other high-calorie food source; be it nuts, pulses, cereals, or meat group.100 gram of Drill contains:37.5% of folates (vitamin B11), 14% of vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), 23% of riboflavin (vitamin B-2), 140% of vitamin-C, 257% of vitamin-A, 21% of calcium, 82% of iron and 55% of manganese.
Possible health benefits of consuming mint
- Dill weed contains numerous plant derived chemical compounds that are known to have been anti-oxidant, disease preventing, and health promoting properties.
- This popular herb contains no cholesterol and low in calories. However, it contains many anti-oxidants, vitamins like niacin, pyridoxine, etc., and dietary fibers, which help to control blood cholesterol levels.
- Dill leaves (sprigs) and seeds contain many essential volatile oils such as d-carvone, dillapiol, DHC, eugenol, limonene, terpinene and myristicin.
- The essential oil, Eugenol in the dill has been in therapeutic usage as local-anesthetic and anti-septic. Eugenol has also been found to reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics. (Further detailed studies may be required to establish its role.)
- Dill oil, extracted from dill seeds has anti-spasmodic, carminative, digestive, disinfectant, galactagogue (helps breast milk secretion), sedative properties.
- It is also rich in many vital vitamins, including folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin A, ß-carotene, vitamin-C that is essential for optimum metabolism inside the human body.
- Vitamin-A, and beta carotene are natural flavonoid antioxidants. 100 g of dill weed sprigs provide 7718 IU or 257% of recommended-daily levels of this vitamin. Vitamin A is also required for maintaining healthy mucus membranes and skin and is essential for good eye-sight. Consumption of natural foods rich in flavonoids helps the human body to protect from lung and oral cavity cancers.
- Fresh dill herb is an excellent source of antioxidant vitamin; vitamin-C. 100 g contain about 85 mg or 140% of vitamin C. Vitamin-C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals.
- Dill weed is a good source of minerals like copper, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, and magnesium. Copper is a cofactor for many vital enzymes, including cytochrome c-oxidase and superoxide dismutase (other minerals function as cofactors for this enzyme are manganese and zinc). Zinc is a co-factor in many enzymes that regulate growth and development, sperm generation, digestion and nucleic acid synthesis. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase.
We guarantee superior Botanical quality of gently hand harvested highest-grade leaves and flowers. Our product does not contain any preservatives, additives, or dyes and produced with the respect for the earth.
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Dried Mint
Mint, also known as mentha, is actually a genus or group of around 15-20 types of plants including peppermint and spearmint. Mint oil is often used in toothpaste, gum, candy and beauty products while the leaves are used either fresh or dried for teas and food. Mint has one of the highest antioxidant capacities of any food.
Possible health benefits of consuming mint
Two tablespoons of mint provides 2 calories, 0.12 grams of protein, 0.48 grams carbohydrates, 0.03 grams of fat and 0.30 grams of fiber. Mint contains small amounts of potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C and vitamin A.
Allergies: Mint plants contain an antioxidant known as rosmarinic acid, which has been studied for its effectiveness in relieving seasonal allergy symptoms. Because of rosmarinic acid’s anti-inflammatory properties, rosmarinic acid has been shown to be a promising treatment.
Common cold: Mint contains menthol, which is a natural decongestant that helps to break up phlegm and mucus. Mint can also be effective, especially when combined with tea for relieving sore throats.
Indigestion: Mint is a calming and soothing herb that has been used for thousands of years to aid with upset stomach or indigestion. Mint is thought to improve the flow of bile through the stomach, which helps to speed and ease digestion.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): The use peppermint oil has been found to be an effective and safe treatment for those suffering from abdominal pain or discomfort associated with IBS.
Skin: When applied topically in oil, ointment or lotion, mint has the effect of calming and cooling skin affected by insect bites, rash or other reactions.
We guarantee superior Botanical quality of gently hand harvested highest-grade leaves and flowers. Our product does not contain any preservatives, additives, or dyes and produced with the respect for the earth.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/275944.php
Fresh Herbs – Pick Through the Garden of Possibilities, Roof, RD, LDN, Bryan, Today’s Dietitian Vol, 14 No. 9 P. 110, Accessed 22 April 2014.
BARBERRY
BARBERRY (Zereshk (زرشک) in Persian ; Berberis spp.,familyBerberidaceae). Species of this genus are found in the northern, eastern, and southeastern highlands of Iran (Alborz, Qaradāḡ in Azerbaijan, ranges of Khorasan, Bārez mountain in Kermān). The South Khorasan province in Iran is the main area of zereshk and saffron production in the world, especially around Birjand and Qaen. About 85% of production is in Qaen and about 15% in Birjand. There is evidence of cultivation of seedless barberry in South Khorasan two hundred years ago. They reach heights of 1 to 3 m, seldom reaching 4 m, and have long branches, copious thorns, denticulate leaves, and red berries which form in clusters on the outer branches in midspring, after the yellow flowers have shed their petals, and ripen in midsummer.
Possible health benefits of consuming barberry:
The barberry shrub produces edible berries that are a rich source of vitamin C. Barberry contains a chemical known as berberine that gives it its medicinal value. This chemical acts as an antibiotic to kill fungi, bacteria, and protozoa. The fruit, root bark, and stem of barberry contain chemical like protoberberin alkaloids and isoquinoline that are effective in treating a number of ailments. Barberry is also a rich source of B vitamins like thiamine and minerals like zinc.
Barberry is effective in easing infection and inflammation of the urinary, respiratory, and gastrointestinal tracts. Common health problems like sinusitis, nasal congestion, sore throat, bronchitis, and candida infections are easily treatable with barberry. Skin conditions like psoriasis can also be treated with the help of barberry extracts.
Experts consider barberry an effective treatment for diarrhea, including diarrhea caused by food poisoning. Some studies have shown that the symptoms of diarrhea improve faster with barberry as compared to traditional antibiotics. Barberry contains powerful astringent properties that help in killing intestinal bacteria faster.
Barberry is also good for maintaining eye health because of its high concentration of berberine. It is also used to treat conjunctivitis.The chemical berberine stimulates the white blood cells in the body that kill disease-causing organisms’ thereby boosting overall immunity.The use of barberry as a liver tonic is also well known. It helps in detoxifying as well as stimulating the liver, which in turn increases the functioning of the liver and treats problems like gallstones.
Barberry is an effective natural treatment for problems like stomach upsets, heartburn, gastritis, ulcers, and ulcerative bowel problems. It also acts as an appetite stimulant. In problems like renal colic, barberry helps in easing the soreness and burning caused by this condition.
Barberry is useful in correcting irregularities in menstrual periods, anemia, as well as treating vaginitis. It can even help correct problems related to gout.
People suffering from ventricular heart defects can also benefit from barberry. This herb has the capacity to increase the blood supply in the body, which is very helpful to these patients.
It helps in lowering blood pressure by enlarging the blood vessels in hypertension patients.Chemotherapy and radiation treatments in many cases result in white blood cell depression in the body, which is correctable with barberry.
In cookery, barberries (especially from Berberis integerrima) are added as a flavoring to soups, polows, and chicken stuffing. A refreshing sherbet made from water drained from barberries and sugar is thought to be useful for getting rid of bile, i.e., curing biliousness. To make zerešk-polowwashed barberries are sprinkled on strained boiled rice, more rice is poured on top, and the dish is then simmered. Addition of barberries to various sorts of soups imparts pleasant tartness. Cleaned chickens are stuffed with barberries and rice, walnuts, or other ingredients before being roasted or cooked.
In traditional medicine, barberries are classed as a cold, dry substance and thought to possess the properties that check diarrhea; strengthen the stomach, liver, and heart; eliminate excess bile; relieve thirst; and cool stomach heat, internal inflammations, and blood ebullition. Mixtures of barberries with hot drugs are considered useful for relief of blockages of the liver, bowels, and intestines; for cure of dysentery caused by coldness and weakness of the liver and bowels; and generally for the treatment of patients afflicted with cold (mabrūdīn).A barberry-wormwood mixture is thought to improve digestion, and barberry juice to prevent vomiting and fainting. The berries are said to cure stomach ulcers and dysentery due to bowel weakness and barberry poultices to relieve acute abscesses. A mixture of barberry, apple, and lemon juices with sugar is believed to counteract dangerous poisons and to cure snakebite, palpitations, vomiting, and loss of appetite. Eating barberries, however, is thought to cause flatulence (remediable with cloves) and dryness and constipation (remediable with sugar and sweets).
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