What you mostly do when gathered lots of bell peppers in your garden? There are numerous ways of preserving them but drying bell peppers is one of the easiest and best ways.
Bell peppers are not only a colorful vegetable but also an incredible source of many minerals and vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin C, folate, and vitamin B6, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium. In fact, some traces of zinc, iron, copper, and manganese are also present in them. Isn’t it a magical healthy dried food to consume?
Continue readingWhenever you are keen to have good health, you always look for the healthy food recipes like dried deer jerky. It is a fantastic snack which fulfills your food cravings and keeps you away from the fried and unhealthy snacks.
Eating a healthy diet does not always include lots of veggies and fruits. You can eat your favorite foods like deer jerky without oil and in the dried form. People from ancient times used to survive on this food for many days while on hunting or long voyages.
Continue readingHave you ever tried drying strawberries in the food dehydrator? Do you know how long to dehydrate strawberries?
We know that there are lots of people around us who love to eat dried strawberries as snacks. With the aid of a food dehydrator, you can easily and quickly make it at your home. It needs very less time for preparation also before drying.
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Do you want to try out some raw food recipes? Then you must try making beet chips in a food dehydrator! It’s not only healthy but delicious too.
The beet chips are one of the healthiest options for snacking. In fact, you can also use it for satisfying your occasional craving. It is quite easy to make them in a food dehydrator.
Continue readingSometimes we don’t have much time at our home to eat bananas. If you didn’t eat them on time, you might end up throwing them in the garbage. Is it the right thing to do?
We know nobody wants to waste food and money. Getting a food dehydrator at home can help you in saving your lots of bananas. It’s quite easy to dehydrate bananas in the food dehydrator.
Continue readingDehydrating food is a great way to save some money and at the same time get some healthy snacks for you and your family. There are many ways to dehydrate food and most of them involve exposing the food to heat in one way or the other. But those who are fond of dehydrating, often wonder if it is possible to over dehydrate food? Well, there is no simple yes or no answer here as it varies according to the food that you’re drying.
Continue readingWhen we talk about drying fruits, the very first fruit which comes into our mind is the apple. It is quite easy and an exciting way to dehydrate apples in a food dehydrator. You just need one good machine and leave the rest to it.
Continue readingThere are lots of things which we can dry in a food dehydrator. But do you know that we can also dry honey in the food dehydrator?
Yes, you heard it right. Honey can also get dry, and it tastes quite yummy. Usually, we use honey in most of our recipes for sweetening purposes. Honey is one of the best sources of energy that improves your immune system also and the same benefit it offers when consuming in the dried form.
Continue readingNuts and seeds are great when eaten on their own, but when you dehydrate nuts and seeds, you can give them a crunchy texture that’s even more delicious. Some of the most popular dehydrated nuts are pecan nuts.
Pecan nuts are used in a wide range of recipes and once you dehydrate these, the flavor of these nuts becomes even more delicious and these can be used for making all kinds of delicious and savory treats like pies, cookies, cakes, salads and just about anything.
Continue readingDehydrating food has become a necessity, if you want to store food items for the long term. Preservation is the easiest and most affordable way to preserve the flavor of foods.
So, how do you go about dehydrating food for long term storage? The key is to remove moisture from the food so mold, bacterial growth and yeast cannot thrive. Dehydration should also be carried out to ensure that the nutritional content of food is preserved. This enhances its longevity too.
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