Freeze Dry Industries, a new food company from Queensland is looking to cut waste and make eating fruit and vegetables more appealing. The company officially opened today, adding to the plethora of healthy food options in the region.
The plan is to dry Australian fruits and vegetables to create nutritional snack foods. Even food items usually thrown in the bin won't be safe from the freezer.
"We've been experimenting with a range of materials like plum skins, pineapple cores and even camel milk, both for our own interest and on behalf of our clients,” CEO and founder Michael Buckle said.
The company has also launched their own retailer, SunLife, which sells freeze-dried strawberries, banana, mango and apple across Australia with hopes to begin exporting to Japan.
Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson got the opportunity to taste the treats at the Regional Flavours in Brisbane and thought it was "a really important innovation in terms of the next stage in agricultural processing."
"This is a business that can effectively take agricultural waste, be they plum skins, or pineapple cores or stems from parsley and through the freeze-drying process turn that into a highly saleable product and one that will be recognised for its nutritional value.
