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What Are Dried Vegetable Quality Standards? Why You Need to Know How to Read Them When purchasing dried vegetables as a commercial raw material, whether you can correctly read the figures in the quality specification (spec sheet) provided by the manufacturer greatly affects your product's quality. Water activity, color difference, particle size, microbio...

For commercial dried vegetables, domestic and Chinese products differ greatly in quality, cost, and supply stability. Chinese products have the edge in distribution volume and price, while domestic ones have the edge in safety, brand appeal, and spec-sheet compliance. Depending on your product's use and sales channels, which you choose changes your costs, complaint rate, and how your channels expand...

HACCP compliance in food processing is not equally important across all processing forms and uses. It is essential for products with zero-tolerance risks such as infant food, care food, and retort foods, but for processing with low water activity and low microbial risk, such as simple drying or powdering, HACCP certification is not necessarily required...

The best-before date of commercial dried vegetables in reality deteriorates greatly depending not only on the period shown on the package but on storage conditions. Even the same lot from the same manufacturer deteriorates in color, aroma, and texture at completely different speeds between stock kept in an aluminum pouch in a cool, dark place and stock left in a simple bag in the kitchen...