We tried all our candy on New Year's Eve and hands down the best was the Milk Duds! The Skittles, Starburst, and Tootsie Rolls were good too, but they weren't that different from before. They are lighter and harder, but they rehydrate quickly in your mouth, so the experience of eating them is just crunchy at first and then normal. The gummy worms tasted good, but they were really hard to eat, because they stick in your teeth. It was a fun experiment, but I doubt we'll be doing much candy in the future.
We did another round of fruit and veggies the other day, more bananas, apples, mandarin oranges, pineapples, and carrots. The fruits are delicious freeze dried, especially the mandarin oranges, which just melt in your mouth. The carrots aren't great as is, but they rehydrate really well. After a few minutes in water they feel like a pool noodle in your hands, which sounds gross, but eating it is like the most perfectly cooked carrot you ever had, soft but with good texture, not at all mushy. If you were going to use them in soup or something, I bet you'd never know the difference. The pineapple rehydrated nicely as well. The mandarin oranges didn't though. They are so powdery that they don't retain their shape once put in water. Perhaps less water would work better. The apples rehydrate okay, but they turn brown in water, so we may try rehydrating them in lemon juice in the future if we want them rehydrated, which we may not, as they are delicious as is too, especially the more tart apples like granny smith.
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