Dried Strawberry Fruits
Dried strawberries are the most appetizing dried fruits which are excellent for cereals, cakes and snacks. An ounce of freeze-dried berries, abt. 1 1/4 cups, has abt. 90 calories and one cup of strawberries has 4 grams of nutritional fiber. The substance in the strawberries is called flavonoids which antioxidant can lessen cardiovascular diseases. Strawberries are dried by freezing it so that the water content inside the strawberries are dried nearly 25 to 40 percent within the fruit. There might be a doubt in everyone’s mind whether all the freeze-dried berries are really healthy? Yes of course, it is found that the antioxidant chemicals which are present in the fresh fruits are unaffected even after it has been frozen down.
Dried strawberries can be used as an additional ingredient for cereals as a morning breakfast. It gives the energy and the nutrition needed for the day and maintains the cholesterol level to be constant. 
How to dry the strawberries? Choose strawberries of high quality which are ripe and red in color. Wash them with white vinegar and then with rinsing water. Make sure that there are no bad spots in the strawberries, if there’s any then remove it. Slice the strawberries to ½ inch and spread it in such a way that there is no overlapping. These are the steps which should be undergone before the strawberries are kept for drying. The strawberries can be heated by means of sun or air drying or by oven drying.
