Frisp Strawberry/Mango Fruit Crisps. My kids love these dried fruit snacks.
Item Limit: 6 per order
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon AU
Just bought 6 each - Expiry date May 2026.
Strawberry:
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07LGJ96GH
Mango (sold out):
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07LGMQF3Y
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Yeah damn that's a lot per kg!
Tell me you don’t understand freeze drying without saying you don’t understand freeze drying
People saying it loses 70-80% of the weight, and you can buy apples at consumer end for $4/kg in Australia, how much is China wholesale getting them for. So my 1kg of apples only makes ~200g, which is $20/kg. Chinese labor of processing and drying adds 10x the cost? Or the Australian company buys them for dirt cheap then jacks it up.
Let alone it is making the food less filling and nutritious, unless you are hiking in the desert or a medieval peasant (or astronaut) dehydrating has no positive, so pay way more for no benefit?
It’s actually about 90% of the weight that’s lost, and most of that is water.
All of the nutrients are left in tact, in the food, excluding minimal amounts of water soluble vitamins and minerals.
The machine costs money - starting at around $5k for a small machine, into the hundreds of thousands for machines that can have specially made tiered trolleys wheeled in to deposit and remove trays.
The process costs money - it takes between 1-2 days to fully dry the product, depending on its moisture level and preparation; which means either another machine is being purchased, run and serviced or labour is being paid to peel and cut product.
The flavour is intensified, the product lasts exponentially longer, next to no nutrition is lost and it’s an interesting product.
FYI
Fruit Crips per 1kg: $116
Fresh apples: 1kg: $5
Just saying..
Also.. these sell for about $210per Kg at Woolies.. crazy 🤯
Not that bad considering when you freeze dry fruit it ends up about 10% of its wet weight
Dried fruits usually lose 75% to 85% of their original weight, so if you dehydrate fresh apples at home your actual cost will be $20-$35/kg. Still better, but a more realistic calculation.
Eating fresh fruit is always the best option.
Dried fruit just like juice contains significantly more sugar for the volume so you will eat more before you feel satisfied.
Now that we are posting random facts; did you know that Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano?
But unlike juice, contains significantly more fibre.
Dried milk is okay though
How would one dehydrate fresh apples at home?
Fresh apples are $3 per kg
Agree.. i put $5 to be more conservative because price fluctuate.
HODL for sub $1 from Amazon Warehouse.
Product of China.
No thanks…
So no made in China items in your household at all?
Just jv
Not sure why people are negging you but I would not buy food from there either.
I agree -> When it comes to food.
Picked up tomato paste at Coles -> Made in China.
Rather pay 50c more and pick the one made in Italy or Australia.
Chinese are great at tech, but I'm betting their food handling isn't up to scratch.
don't look up about the modern day slavery surrounding the italian tomato products then
And the communist party of China is any better?
Frisp Strawberry Fruit Crisps
"No bad stuff added"
Ingredients: Strawberries, sugar
Huh ????
sugar is the good stuff
These dont taste very good, just an FYI
They are grown in China, so who knows how they fertilize the plants.
with how much corner cutting goes on because of how competitive everything is, its not unreasonable to question how theyre grown. A few years ago there were huge concerns with fruits from china being dyed to make them look more fresh with known carcinogenic dyes, stuff in a similar vein are always popping up here and there with import produce.
The fake food industry in China is a huge thing, wouldnt be surprised if theyre not even real strawberries with how good theyve gotten with making them…
Best bet is to never eat any food coming from China.
Yep didn't like it one bit
57g sugar per 100g ;)
Firstly, the bag is 15g, so not sure why 100g is a useful measurement unless you are looking to compare energy density of various foods.
Secondly, it's literally freeze dried fruit, 100% mango. Mango is approximately 90% water, and they removed 99% of the water. The amount of sugar per 100g of freeze dried mango is the same amount of sugar per 1000g fresh mango.
Per 100g is an easy way to convert it into a % which helps us compare it to other products. It's useful.
It's not useful to compare freeze-dried fruit with fresh fruit, that's exactly the point.
@twocsies: You would eat 1 mango in a sitting while in this bag there's probably quite a few shrivelled up mangos in there. Eating this is less "health" because you are eating more fructose than you would otherwise just eating a fresh mango!
For some fruits and vegetables, the drying process, particularly freeze drying, can reduce biosecurity risks.
However, dried fruit and vegetables may still carry:
pests
viable seeds or other plant material
seed-borne diseases (such as plum pox virus)
other pathogens
storage pests (such as khapra beetle).
Many dried fruits and vegetables can be imported into Australia, however import conditions apply (for example, some can only be imported with peel and/or seeds removed and some may require an import permit).
Hmm freeze drying bugs…. droolz…
— Homer
81g sugar per 100g, I would not give this to kids.
But it says:
"No bad stuff added"
I don't know why I have to defend freeze dried mangos. But if actually you read the label, it's literally only 57g of sugar. The value of 81g/100g is for carbohydrates, which includes sugars (natural), fibre, and starches. 15g freeze dried mango is similar to 150g fresh mango, so if you ask me, for $1.50 it's a bit pricy for a kid's lunchbox, but a 15g bag is virtually identical to 150g of fresh mango if your kid also drinks 135 mL water with the snack.
If you instead added 6.66 bags of the stuff to the kid's lunch, it will be $10 and a lot of sugar.
18 spoons of sugar per 100g…
Meds goes down, diabetes goes up.
Why does anyone care about the number of fructose sugars in 6.66 bags of freeze-dried mango converted to spoons? And why 18?
The sugar in teaspoons is equal to the sugar in grams multiplied by 0.24. There are 57g of mango sugar, which by weight would be the same as 13.7 spoonfuls of granulated sugar in 6.66 bags of the stuff.
As others have observed, if you eat a whole mango you will likely feel satisfied, whereas you would need to eat several packets for the same sense of being full.
If you have the self discipline to only eat one bag and drink plenty of water then these are okay, but the reality is that most people don't.
The same rules apply to fruit juice.
Ok boomer….
I feel like there’s too much certainty in life.
One side think anything made in China is automatically bad and treats it like it’s the boogieman.
The other side (often people with Chinese roots) seek to blindly defend China.
People are way too certain and binary about everything in their lives. Try to be less certain, I find it’s typically the stupidest in society who are the most certain about everything.
The older I get, the more I realise I don’t know everything.
ozphilosophy
I’m probably about as impactful as those Udemy courses everyone signs up for and doesn’t do.
Might as well be yelling this into the wind.
Try to be less certain
Not wise when the item is food that you eat…
I mean generally in life, not just specific to strawberry chips ffs, try to gain some perspective in life.
Oh, maybe post in the 'life philosophy' forum topic.
Here we are talking about food from China.
Is this different to the dried mango Aldi sells.
Yes
This is freeze dried (think mango with the texture of softer Violet Crumble), whereas dried mango has the texture of a handbag
Ah was going to give it a go then, but it's OOS.
texture of a freeze dried handbag or just dried handbag?
Over $100/kg for dried Chinese mango.
Dried beef (biltong) loses similar weight to mango and costs $80/kg. Not really a bargain..
Freeze drying preserves significantly more nutrients (eg vitamin C) than any other preservation method (that i know of). If sealed and stored properly freeze dried products also have a shelf life of 25 years.
I buy this brand often and find some of the packets appear to be not 100% sealed which is annoying. I'd still recommend.
Amazon is price matching coles.
Strawberry still in stock
Still $116/kg for dried Chinese fruit (normal price $213/kg lol).