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A+ Berry produces aronia berry-based functional beverages and wellness supplements, including AroJuice, AroBoost, and AroPowder. The company sources aronia berries from sustainable Midwest family farms and uses a patent-pending green process with dietary fiber encapsulation and high-pressure processing (HPP) to improve taste while preserving nutrition. Products are sold online and in over 150 stores in the Midwest.

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Backyard Farms states that its primary objective is to better serve the needs of the regional food system through freeze-drying fresh foods.

Clean Food Farm is an organic blueberry farm in Orting, WA, founded in 2008 by Larry Bailey. It grows blueberries on a 10.25-acre property with 3,900 bushes using trellis and drip irrigation, and in 2024-25 established a berry freeze-drying operation. Products are marketed via wholesale and institutional channels.

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Bravo Tango Supply is a disabled women veteran-owned company proudly made in the USA. It delivers mission-ready products across four core categories: simple-ingredient dog treats (freeze-dried and dehydrated), quality apparel and accessories, premium human snacks (freeze-dried and dehydrated fruit), and custom branded products. A percentage of annual proceeds goes to nonprofit organizations to help purchase service dogs for veterans and first responders.

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ENOF (BT Naturals LLC dba ENOF) makes an organic fruit and vegetable powder that concentrates the nutrition of organic fruits and vegetables into a fine powder. A 1/12 teaspoon serving provides the nutritional equivalent of 2.5 servings of vegetables. The product contains no synthetic vitamins, is vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, and made in the USA.

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BUCHI provides easy-to-use, high-quality laboratory and in-process solutions intended to contribute to the health, safety and well-being of humans and the environment. Its specialists worldwide support customers in finding solutions for their applications, and the company offers laboratory instruments for evaporation, chromatography, spray drying, freeze drying, extraction, near infrared analysis, digestion, steam distillation, parallel evaporation, encapsulation, industrial evaporation and melting point determination.

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Cockeyed Farms is a veteran owned, family farm in Franklinton, Louisiana, run by Lauren and Brandon Breaux. They grow beyond organic American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis), blueberries and honey, and produce cold-pressed American Elderberry juice, juice with honey, and creamed honey products. They also offer U-Pick seasonal berry picking activities.

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Cracking Candy was founded in June 2023 in Ohio with the goal of creating unique, high-quality crackable treats. It relocated to Ocean Springs, Mississippi in October 2023 and opened its first brick-and-mortar location in May 2024. The shop offers freeze-dried candies, fruits and vegetables, including old-time favorites with a freeze-dried twist, and provides gift cards.

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Cultural Preservation & Restoration, Inc. (CPR) is a professional conservation firm dedicated to the preservation, stabilization, and recovery of cultural and historical materials. It offers conservation assessments, treatment and stabilization, restoration, object analysis, collection care planning, and freeze-drying services, performing both in-house and on-site work on paintings, sculpture, monuments, and structural elements. CPR serves museums, libraries, government agencies, cultural institutions, historical societies, and private collectors.

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Critical care, stabilized for anywhere.Desi Corp puts time on the side of healthcare providers.Critical therapeutics exist. The barrier to lifesaving care is not always science. Sometimes it is time and access. Many products can expire before they are needed or degrade en route to the patient. Patients in remote areas, on the battlefield, and in rural communities often cannot access existing care. Desi Corp stabilizes medicine so it can go anywhere, be stored without cold-chain infrastructure, and be administered when needed.Learn about what we do Evaluating Feasibility Desi Corp enhances access to healthcare by providing solutions from product development to end-user delivery.Life sciences.Desi Corp Life Sciences and Technology applies the science of anhydrobiosis, life without water, to stabilize therapeutics, including blood products, vaccines, and biologics. No refrigeration. No.

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Division by Zero Labs (DbZ Labs) is an R&D-focused spray drying process development lab founded by Steve Rowley, a contract chemist specializing in chemical and food manufacturing processes. The company performs custom R&D, formulation, scale-up, and guides customers from lab scale through piloting and commercialization, with experience making powders for the chemical, pharmaceutical, biological, agricultural, food and beverage, and defense industries. It is the sole U.S. manager for support and service of Hemraj India spray dryers.

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Yum Yum Candy Shop is a family and veteran-owned candy business located in Idaho, founded in January 2023 by Dave and Sara. The shop specializes in unique candy including freeze-dried treats, gooey gummies, sour dipping powders, and premium candy mixes, made fresh in small batches.

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Elza Pearl Wildfarm aims to restore, conserve, propagate, and sustainably harvest Appalachian forest botanicals in harmony with perennial produce. The company offers chemical-free, freeze-dried forest botanicals and shares knowledge of Appalachia's forests with its community and the world.

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Endure Biotherapeutics is leading the discovery, development, and commercialization of engineered, engraftable live biotherapeutics for the treatment of genetic and chronic diseases. Its platform engineers native bacterial strains that remain resident in the gastrointestinal tract, delivering therapeutic proteins missing or nonfunctional in diseased conditions. The bioengineered live biotherapeutics are cultured and administered as an oral capsule containing freeze-dried bacteria.

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Fat-Cat Fish is a small, family-owned pet food company located in Bellingham, Washington. It supplies the pet food industry with ultra-premium, responsibly-sourced salmon and whitefish, and makes freeze-dried raw single-ingredient wild salmon pet treats for dogs and cats. The company began developing its pet treats in 2017 and has over 75 years of experience in the fishing industry.

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Frog Bench Farms is a small urban farm growing on 1.5 acres in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded by Paula and Joseph Sargetakis and beginning production in 2012. It grows seasonal produce year-round and sells to local restaurants and farmers markets, and also produces shelf-stable secondary products processed onsite in a UDAF-approved kitchen.

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Jubilant HollisterStier is a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) providing sterile fill-finish and lyophilization services for pharmaceutical and biotech partners. With decades of experience, it offers a flexible, collaborative partnership model for manufacturing excellence, serving global healthcare markets with facilities in Spokane, Washington, USA and Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Kent Meadows Farm is a family farm in Havre de Grace, Maryland, raising Wagyu/Angus beef, woodland-raised pork, and non-GMO pasture-raised chickens. It operates a self-serve honor-system produce stand, offers free range eggs on weekends, hosts family-friendly events and field trips, and sells homemade canned goods under an On-Farm Home Processing License from the Maryland State Office of Food Protection.

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Know Your Fruit is based in Hood River, Oregon and makes single-origin, freeze-dried fruit puffs. Every fruit is grown in the same place by local family farmers, with zero added sweeteners. Each snack-ready pack contains two whole servings of fruit, and a patent-pending process locks in 98% of each fruit's nutritional value.

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