Food Category Details

Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds (04.2.2.2)

Description:
Products in which the natural water content has been reduced below that critical for growth for microorganisms without affecting the important nutrients. The product may or may not be intended for rehydration prior to consumption. Includes vegetable powders that are obtained from drying the juice, such as tomato powder and beet powder.¹ Examples include: dried potato flakes and dried lentil. Examples of Oriental dried products include: dried sea tangle (kelp; kombu), dried sea tangle with seasoning (shio-kombu), dried seaweed (tororo-kombu), dried gourd strips (kampyo), dried laver (nori), and dried laminariales (wakame).

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