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We don’t just make Back Country Cuisine, we also provide contract food manufacturing and freeze drying of food products for human consumption in New Zealand’s deep south.
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The company behind Back Country Cuisine, Australia and New Zealand’s number 1 meals for outdoor adventures. Our specialty is the freeze drying of food for human consumption. Freeze drying is a great technology for drying food products, extending their shelf life and / or intensifying their flavour without altering the colour, shape or nutrient profile. We’ve been freeze drying food since 1998.
+25 years
We've been freeze drying food since 1998.
1,140 Litres
We use New Zealand made Cuddons Freeze Driers. We have three FD 300s and three FD 80s.
+120
We have over 120 ingredients we use on a daily basis for our meal production.
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If you are in the food, pharmaceutical or nutraceutical space and you’re looking for an ingredient we produce or freeze drying an ingredient or product you produce, we’d love to hear from you.
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