Freezedry Harvest
Baby and toddler
Single-ingredient powders
for melts and toddler snacks.
We supply freeze-dried single-ingredient powders and fine pieces for baby and toddler melts, puffs and snacks. Tomato and herbs are certified organic, and other crops can be grown on our own farms for your program. Every lot is micro-tested in our own lab and traceable from field to pouch.
01 — Why this segment uses freeze dried
A dry ingredient that was never cooked.
Melts are small pieces that dissolve quickly in the mouth. They are usually formed from a fruit or vegetable powder combined with a base such as yogurt or starch, then freeze dried again as a finished shape. Puffs and soft finger snacks use powders in the same way, as color and flavor in an extruded or baked base.
Developers in this segment choose freeze-dried powders for process reasons. The crop is frozen and dried under vacuum at low product temperature, with no hot air and no cooking step on the way to becoming dry, so the color and flavor of the fresh crop carry through. A single-ingredient powder also keeps the label short: the ingredient line reads as the crop and nothing else.
We make no nutrition or health claims about these ingredients, for infants or anyone else. What we can tell you is how they are grown, dried, tested and traced; the claims on your finished product are yours to establish.
02 — Ingredients
What we can supply for melts and toddler snacks.
Each ingredient is a single crop. Powders are made only when you ask, to the particle size you set at the bench trial.
| Ingredient | Form for this segment | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tomato | Powder or fine pieces | In the range as pieces; powdered to your specification. |
| Banana | Powder or fine pieces | Powdered or cut to your specification. |
| Mango | Powder or fine pieces | Powdered or cut to your specification. |
| Carrot, broccoli, kale | Powder | Not in the standing range; planned against your volumes on our own farms. |
| Parsley, basil and other herbs | Fine flakes or powder | For savory toddler snacks, at a low dose for color and flavor. |
03 — Organic and traceability
Paperwork a baby-food buyer will ask for.
Buyers in this segment ask more questions about where an ingredient came from than almost any other. Our herbs and vegetables are certified USDA Organic and EU Organic, certified by Ecocert, and grown on our own farms and by contracted growers around Lake Naivasha. The detail is on our organic page.
Every lot is traceable from field to pouch: farm, plot, harvest date, dryer run and packing date. Crops are washed and graded the day they are picked and go into the dryers the same day. The plant is certified to FSSC 22000, is an FDA-registered food facility with a PCQI on staff, and none of the major allergens are in the product or in the plant.
Freeze drying is not a kill step, and we do not present it as one. Lots are micro-tested in our own lab, and the micro limits for your powder are agreed with you and written on the spec sheet. How the plant controls this is set out under food safety.
04 — What a developer specifies
Points to agree before a pilot run.
A powder for a melt is specified more tightly than a piece for a snack. These are the usual points.
- The crop and its certification status.
- Particle size for a powder, or the size range for fine pieces, set at the bench trial.
- Moisture target, agreed with you and written on the spec sheet.
- Micro limits, tested on each lot in our own lab.
- Allergen statement and the organic, FSSC 22000 and kosher certificates you need, on request.
- Traceability you need on file: farm, plot, harvest date, dryer run and packing date.
- Packing: bulk metalized pouches, or retail-ready to your specification, and the lot size for the pilot run.
Questions
Questions buyers ask about ingredients for baby melts.
Which freeze-dried powders does FD Harvest offer for baby and toddler melts?
Tomato, banana and mango powder, made to your specification. Other crops can be grown on our own farms and powdered for your program.
Does anything else go into the powder?
No. FD Harvest products are single ingredients, and powders are made only when you ask, from one crop.
Are there allergens in the plant?
None of the major allergens are in FD Harvest's products or in the plant at Lake Naivasha. The allergen statement is available on request.
Can a lot of powder be traced back to the field?
Yes. Every FD Harvest lot is traceable from field to pouch: farm, plot, harvest date, dryer run and packing date.
Is freeze-dried powder sterile?
No. Freeze drying is not a kill step; low water activity stops microbes from growing but does not kill them. FD Harvest micro-tests each lot in its own lab against limits agreed with you.
Contact us to discuss your product requirements.
Tell us the format, the crops and the particle size you need. Free samples come with a spec sheet.
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