Mountain House Freeze Dried Foods

Why did we choose Mountain House?
A very good question with a simple answer - they make the best-tasting and highest quality freeze dried foods available anywhere! Following are a few important details about freeze drying and Mountain House foods.

Emergency foods.
Emergencies can take almost any forms, including natural disasters, power outages, and man-made disasters. Keeping food on hand for emergencies is like insurance for your car or home - you have it when you need it. With Mountain House freeze dried foods in your food storage, you can be ready for almost any unexpected crisis.

Taste the difference! Mountain House freeze dried foods taste superior to other products because they start with fresh or frozen foods, then cook and prepare them, and then freeze-dry them. All of the flavor and taste as if they'd just been made from scratch. Other food companies don't freeze-dry or cook their own foods, they blend and package other companies' dry goods, which results in a less-than-fresh taste usually associated with emergency foods. Mountain House foods tastes as close to fresh or frozen as you can get.

Easy preparation. Mountain House freeze dried foods are quick and easy to prepare - just add hot water, wait 10 minutes, and a complete meal is ready! If a hot water isn't available (i.e. no heat source), room temperature or cold water may also be used. Because no cooking is needed, these foods require much less water and fuel than most fresh, frozen or dehydrated foods.

20-year shelf life. Mountain House freeze uses a unique packing process (the same required by the US military), where up to 98% of residual oxygen is removed to produce the longest shelf life available - up to 20 years! Each airtight, NITROGEN packed #10 cans is coated with a protective enamel inside and out for double protection. This time-consuming process protects your food until you're ready to eat! After opening, the cans may be resealed but Mountain House recommends using the contents within 2 to 3 weeks for best results and taste.

The freeze drying process. Freeze drying has several advantages over other food preservation methods. Frozen foods retain fresh flavor and nutritional value, whereas dehydrated and canned foods are shelf-stable, but high-temperature processing can degrade flavor, texture and nutritional content. Freeze drying combines the best of these two methods. It preserves freshness, color and taste similar to frozen food, while providing the shelf-stable convenience of canned or dehydrated food. Freeze-dried foods:

• Taste fresh. Freeze dried foods retain virtually all their fresh-food taste and nutritional content. Freeze drying removes the water, not the flavor.
• Look fresh. Freeze dried foods maintain their original shape and texture, unlike dehydrated foods, which shrink and shrivel due to high-temperature processing. Just add water, and in minutes every fresh food detail returns.
• Less weight.. Freeze-dried foods have 98% of their water removed, which reduces the food's weight by about 90%.
• Stay fresh. Freeze-dried foods can be stored at room temperature, without deterioration or spoilage. This is because freeze-drying and packaging remove both water and oxygen - the two primary causes of food deterioration.



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