From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfreeze-driedˌfreeze-ˈdried / $ ˈ../ adjective DFfreeze-dried food has been frozen and dried very quickly in order to preserve it
Examples from the Corpus
freeze-dried• As soon as your example is settled and feeding upon these live foods, it should be encouraged on to freeze-dried and frozen foods.• The coffee smelt and tasted rich, quite unlike the freeze-dried brand she used at home.• Instead of tucking into turkey and all the trimmings, they ate freeze-dried chilli - washed down with whisky and port.• I would extend their range of goods to include freeze-dried Daphnia, Bloodworms, Tubifex, etc.• However, after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again, with either freeze-dried or live foods.• And in the rocks, somewhere on Mars, is probably written the history of the cold, freeze-dried planet.• Workers feed them daily a mix of flakes, worms, grasshoppers and freeze-dried shrimp.• We would have to make ourselves innocuous and present to the outside world a mild, freeze-dried version of history. 