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Innovating Freeze-Dried Candy with Freeze-Dried Fruit
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May 15, 2025
What happens when you “powderize” freeze-dried fruit and coat it on a Skittle to freeze-dry? You get a NEW freeze-dried candy! In this video, I will show you step-by-step how I transformed a popular freeze-dried candy into a new flavor that will inspire you to try new recipes for your freeze-drying business. Are you new to freeze-drying? Join our freeze-drying business community email list here: www.freezedriedbusiness.com. Here’s what you need to make this recipe: 1. Freeze Dried Fruit - Don’t have any? Make some by following my Beginners Guide to Freeze-Drying Fruit: https://youtu.be/nl6U224llfg 2. Motar & Pestal - https://amzn.to/45R3yvb 3. Food Processor https://amzn.to/45WMQdz 4. Skittles Other Videos to Inspire you in Freeze-Drying - Tropical Fruits - https://youtu.be/pro8Zg4Dhzs - Starbursts - https://youtu.be/DLHbfrJoeNg - How Much Can You Make - https://youtu.be/KVZbdzLWIL ——————————————— Freeze Dryers to Purchase ——————————————— - Harvest Right Freeze Dryers - Start with the Large and then upgrade to an XL as you start increasing your customer portfolio. https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html - StayFresh Freeze Dryer - https://stayfreshfreezedry.com/?sca_ref=3292008.4uBi4MIG3W&sca_source=YouTube. I like the freezing speed and dry times of this machine. It's a little larger than the Harvest Right Medium but you can do 12-13 pounds of food in it which is only a few pounds less than the Harvest Right Large capacity.
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I made a new freeze-dried Candy by
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freeze drying fruit and freeze drying
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Skittles and combine the two to make a
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powderized infused freeze-dried Skittle
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in this video I'm going to share with
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you step by step how to take the
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freeze-dried fruit powderize it and make
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sure it's all infused into that
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freeze-dried Skittle hey welcome to the
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freeze dry business Channel my name is
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David and I run a freeze drying business
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in Idaho I've ran it for four years and
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I started this YouTube channel because I
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wanted to bring more and more content
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related to freeze drying and the
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business side of this industry so if
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you're interested in freeze drying or
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you're interested in starting a freeze
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drying business using your freeze dryer
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videos quickly talk about freeze dryers
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if you don't own a freeze dryer I use
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the Harvest Right freeze dryer I also
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own a stay fresh freeze dryer now if you
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already own a freeze dryer then great
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what you can use your freeze dryer for
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is either for home use with food
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preservation or you can make it a
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business and in today's video I'm going
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to show you how to experiment with
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different types of applications with the
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freeze-dried Fess product freeze-dried
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fruit when you put it in the freeze
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dryer it's going through a process
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called sublimation what that does and
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why freeze drying is taking off is
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you're really preserving the highest
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number of mutri in a product that you
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put in the freeze dryer when it comes
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out and what you can do now is apply it
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as a powder form because now that the
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pineapple let's say or the strawberry is
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dried you can now crush it up and then
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let's say make it more of a powder over
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top to flavor something else there's a
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lot of applications for the powder of a
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finished freeze-dried product all right
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enough about the science part let's get
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to the meat and potatoes of this video
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and what it's all about again we're
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going to powderize that's a new term
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that I'm coining we're going to
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powderize five different fruits and
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we're going to spray the Skittles so
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that we can take that fruit powder and
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sprinkle it over the candy and the
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Skittles and make it more of a flavored
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type of Skittle removing not necessar L
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the the the fruit chaste of the chewi of
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the skittle but kind of add strawberry
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plus the great flavor of the skittle
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right so if you're looking at doing this
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particular recipe I'd suggest finding a
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way to crush your fruit this is a mort
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pestl that I've got you've probably seen
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this on different types of YouTube
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channels where people are doing it with
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candy you can also see it with guacamole
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obviously but I'm just going to use this
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because I use it for guacamole we're
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going to crush it up and make it into a
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powder and then you're also going to
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need a spray bottle these are really
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cheap put some purified water in it
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you're obvious going to need your
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Skittles and then you're also going to
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need your trays that's really all this
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recip is going to do now in the meantime
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while you're doing this you're going to
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want to set your freeze dryer to 140°
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and then make sure it's on high
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temperature mode now it's going to
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pre-freeze for 15 minutes that's the
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process of the freeze dryer then we're
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going to be able to turn it on high
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temperature mode close the drain valve
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and then put our Skittles in so what I'm
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going to get is I'm actually going to
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use a a bowl like this that has has 2
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cups and I'm just going to actually put
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about 2 cups worth just filling up here
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of the pineapple and then I'm going to
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make a powder out of it using the mortar
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and pestl you know it seems like that's
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a lot so maybe we'll just do a an actual
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cup freeze-dried pineapple with any type
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of freeze-dried fruit it just becomes a
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crunchy flavorful snack it's really
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delicious and so we're going to put this
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fruit into the pestl and we're
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going to just make it into a p so I've
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got a strainer now the reason I'm going
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to use this is I'm just going to be able
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to pour some of these Skittles into
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here I'm not going to do too many
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Skittles because I just want to see how
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this all tastes right so what we're
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going to do is we're going to take the
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spray bottle and we're going to coat the
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Skittles with some water the only reason
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we're doing that is not necessarily to
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take off all of the the dye that's on
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the for the colors but just to get a
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little bit wet and now we're going to
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coat all these
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Skittles
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with pineapple we're going to now put it
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onto the tray you see how it's kind of
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clumping up with the
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pineapple so this is this is my first
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time doing this and what I'm already
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seeing is like you know it's not the
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same as as dusting them over with chamoy
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or you know tajun type of uh flavoring
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that you can buy so now we're going to
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do strawberries I'm going to change my
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gloves out all right let's go ahead and
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do strawberries now what I'm going to do
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too again is I'm going to do a cup of
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the freeze-dried strawberries this is
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the great part about freeze drying is
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that you get to try different things and
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this is what you should be doing as a
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freeze-dried business I'm taking
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something that we all know right now
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which is a freeze-dried Skittle and I'm
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just going to take different types of
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flavorings from fruit and put it onto
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the skittle and that's unique
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right have you really tasted a free
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dried pineapple flavored Skittle what
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I'm going to do differently between the
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pineapple and and the strawberries dust
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is I'm actually going to put the
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Skittles already on the
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tray and I'm going to spray it with the
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with the water just lightly now and now
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what I'm going to do is I'm going to
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take
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the powder and I'm just going to kind of
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put it around on top of the Skittles
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here you could probably use a
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sifter um you know use your hands things
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like that and all I'm doing is I'm just
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trying to coat all the Skittles and then
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I'm going to move the Skittles around a
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little bit just so it can be all around
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everybody on the other three I'm going
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to do dragon fruit mango and papaya and
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then I'll have strawberries and the
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pineapple now before we put the things
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all right let's get to the next couple
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of fruits and put these
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types of infused powderized fruit
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Skittles that we did here but before I
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do that if you want to check out how to
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actually freeze dry these tropical
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fruits that we did as well as some other
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standard fruits that I sell in my freeze
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dry business and I recommend you do too
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make sure you check out the thumbnails
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coming up at the end of this video and I
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also had the video about how to freeze
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dry strawberries blueberries and
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pineapple all right let's get started
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with the taste test I'm going to taste
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each one of these this is going to be
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the first time that I've tasted them so
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this is the mango this is dragon fruit
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pineapple strawberries and then the
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papaya so let's try the mango
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first after trying the mango I had a
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little bit of a taste of the mango on
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one of the Skittles but then he
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immediately hit the kind of the
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crunchiness and the flavor of the
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skittle so I wouldn't say that the mango
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actually really hit that well I couldn't
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taste the fruit all right so as you can
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see with the dragon fruit has like the
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seeds with in it so let's try
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that interesting I couldn't taste the
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dragon fruit right away when I crunched
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on it but then the aftertaste for some
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reason I may have hit five or six of
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these seeds and I actually was able to
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taste a little bit of the tartness of
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the the dragon fruit so I'd say the
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dragon fruit definitely hit differently
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than the mango I think this is better
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but still not what I was anticipating I
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would have like to have had the flavor
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hit a little bit more heavy so let's
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move on to the pineapple all right so
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here's the pineapple now what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to take this one
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right here it seems like it's coated
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really well with the
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pineapple wow the pineapple this is by
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far the best out of the past two that
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we've done I can taste the pineapple
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immediately and then I feel like I'm
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tasting the skittle this is definitely
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what I was looking for there's a lot
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bigger chunks of the pineapple so it's
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not as much of a powder form there's
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little chunks that might be the ticket
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for this is to make it so that there's
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larger chunks but still small enough
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where it's going to coat the skittle all
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right let's try the strawberries now we
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did this one the same way we did with
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the pineapple we put it in a bowl mixed
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it up try this
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one strawberry didn't really work that
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well I couldn't even taste any part of
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the strawberry I just tasted the skittle
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so papaya kind of looks like the mango
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as well it's not as coated and I don't
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see as big of a chunk so this is
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probably going to end up being similar
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to the strawberry and the
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mango papaya I didn't taste it at all
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pineapple I'm going to say is definitely
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the winner here because it really has a
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a strong layer of the pineapple and
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maybe it's just the flavor that enhances
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through freeze drying and then adding it
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to the skittle is clearly a big winner
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so if you're going to do this I'd say
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hands down you need to do the pineapple
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and then try other different types of
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fruits and like I said at the beginning
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of this video powderize your
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freeze-dried fruit is a great
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application for trying different types
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of recipes try to use it for frosting or
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flavoring different types of baking
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goods and don't forget to check out more
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of the videos coming up next I'll see
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you there
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