Food Freeze-Drying Course
Gain expertise in food freeze-drying using proven cycles for items like strawberries and cooked chicken. Master equipment setup, target moisture and water activity levels, and in-process controls to avoid collapse, clumping, and case-hardening, ensuring safe, shelf-stable products.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips you with practical, science-backed skills to create effective lyophilization cycles for foods such as strawberries and cooked chicken. Cover drying basics, equipment capabilities, probe handling, and real-time moisture analysis, then use this knowledge to refine pre-freezing, primary and secondary drying, quality checks, safety protocols, and batch records for reliable, long-lasting outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Design freeze-drying cycles by setting temperatures, pressures, and times for stable food products.
- Optimize pre-freezing to control ice morphology, thickness, and tray loading.
- Use probes and sensors to monitor product temperature, pressure, and moisture in real time.
- Prevent defects such as collapse, case-hardening, stickiness, and clumping in foods.
- Validate batches by documenting cycles, verifying moisture, water activity, safety, and QC specs.
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