Where to buy freeze-dried fruit in the UK

In the UK, freeze-dried fruit is mainly an online buy: wholefood shops, British freeze-drying growers and specialist baking suppliers sell 100g pouches and larger bags across a dozen or more fruits, while supermarkets stock only a narrow range, usually a small home-baking sachet of strawberry or raspberry pieces plus toddler snack pouches. Across UK online sellers, plain freeze-dried strawberries have commonly worked out at roughly £6 to £11 per 100g, with raspberries higher again and tiny high-street sachets several times that per 100g.

Every figure here is an indicative range seen across UK retailers, last checked September 2026. Prices move, multibuys come and go and stock changes month to month, so treat these as bands to expect rather than quotes. The habit that matters more than any of them is comparing price per 100g rather than the price on the front of the pack.

The five ways to buy freeze-dried fruit in the UK

Indicative UK ranges, last checked September 2026.

Freeze-dried fruit in UK supermarkets

Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl and M&S all sell plenty of dried fruit, but very little of it is freeze-dried, and what there is tends to sit in three places rather than one:

• The home-baking aisle. Small sachets or tubs of freeze-dried strawberry or raspberry pieces, sold as a decoration. Sainsbury's and Tesco have both listed own-label versions; availability comes and goes by store.
• The baby and toddler aisle. Freeze-dried fruit melts, crisps and yoghurt-coated snacks, usually blended products rather than plain fruit, so read the ingredients.
• Cereal, granola and confectionery. Freeze-dried berries turn up inside other products far more often than on their own, and chocolate-coated berries appear around Christmas and Easter.

Aldi and Lidl treat freeze-dried fruit as an occasional special buy rather than a permanent line, so it is there one month and gone the next. If you want a plain 100g pouch of freeze-dried strawberries or freeze-dried raspberries for baking, a supermarket is rarely the place. Our page on freeze-dried fruit in UK supermarkets goes aisle by aisle.

One genuine advantage of the supermarket shelf is the unit price. UK price marking rules require most shops to show a unit price alongside the selling price, which is why shelf-edge labels carry a per-kilogram or per-100g figure. Online, unit pricing appears far less consistently, so you often have to work it out yourself.

Freeze-dried fruit in health food shops and on the high street

Holland & Barrett and Grape Tree are the two chains most British shoppers can name, and both have carried some freeze-dried lines. Holland & Barrett has listed fruit crisps, fruit powders and own-brand chocolate-coated freeze-dried strawberries rather than a plain berry range. Grape Tree has listed small freeze-dried sachets alongside its weigh-out dried fruit and nuts. Ranges and shelf space change, so check before making a special trip. Independent wholefood shops, farm shops and zero-waste shops vary enormously, and some will order a larger bag in if you ask.

The trade-off is straightforward: you get the fruit today, in a pack size that is easy to try, and you pay a good deal more per gram. A 30g sachet is a sensible way to find out whether you like freeze-dried cherries before buying 250g, and an expensive way to keep a baking cupboard stocked.

Online wholefood shops and specialist freeze-dried brands

This is where the real choice is, and it divides into four kinds of seller.

Wholefood superstores. Buy Whole Foods Online, Healthy Supplies, RealFoodSource and Rough & Ready Whole Foods carry freeze-dried fruit as one range among hundreds of dry goods. Pack sizes ladder up from 100g, and you can fill a basket to a free-delivery threshold with other store-cupboard items.

British growers and processors. Arbuckle's and Podberry, both Scottish, grow or source fruit and freeze-dry it themselves. Ranges are smaller, origin is usually stated plainly, and they are the easiest route to British-grown fruit and to freeze-dried vegetables such as peas and sweetcorn.

Specialist and chef suppliers. Sous Chef, Healthy Future and Vilgain UK sit between ingredient supplier and snack brand. This is where the forms that matter to bakers are easiest to find: whole berries, slices, pieces, crumb and freeze-dried fruit powders, each suited to a different job.

Marketplaces. Amazon UK and eBay list many of the same brands alongside unfamiliar sellers. Check the pack weight rather than the picture, check who the seller is, and work out the price per 100g, because listings mix pack sizes freely.

Delivery is part of the price. Free-delivery thresholds across UK sellers in this niche ran from around £20 to around £100 when last checked in September 2026, with paid delivery commonly a few pounds. A single 100g pouch plus postage can cost more per 100g than a larger order that ships free, which is a good reason to buy two or three fruits at once.

Buying freeze-dried fruit in bulk

Bulk suppliers and some of the growers sell 500g, 1kg and catering sizes, and this is the only route where strawberries realistically drop towards £4 to £6 per 100g. Two things decide whether it is worth it.

First, the discount is not always as large as it looks. Volume pricing in this market is inconsistent: some sellers barely reduce the per-100g price between a 100g pouch and a 500g bag, while others halve it. Work out both before you commit.

Second, storage. Freeze-dried fruit is ruined by moisture rather than by time, and a large bag opened and resealed twice a week will go bendy long before you reach the bottom. Decant a kilogram into airtight jars straight away and keep them somewhere cool, dark and dry: our guide to storing freeze-dried fruit has the detail, and what to do when freeze-dried fruit has gone soft covers the rescue. Splitting a bulk bag with someone else is often the sensible compromise.

How to compare freeze-dried fruit by price per 100g

The arithmetic is one line:

price per 100g = pack price ÷ pack weight in grams × 100

So a 30g sachet at £3.50 is £11.67 per 100g, and a 250g pouch at £18.00 is £7.20 per 100g. Written out as a ladder, the gap between formats is hard to ignore.

These are round numbers chosen to show the arithmetic. They are not real prices and not quotes from any retailer.

Three things to watch while you compare. Buy on weight, not pack size, because freeze-dried fruit is extremely light and a big-looking bag may hold 40g. Check form, because whole berries usually cost more per 100g than pieces or crumb of the same fruit, and pieces do the same job if you are going to blitz them into icing anyway. And remember that organic lines sit well above the standard bands, commonly by a fifth to a half or more.

What makes freeze-dried fruit expensive

Fresh berries are roughly 90% water, and freeze-drying takes almost all of it out, so about ten kilograms of fresh berries become about one kilogram of freeze-dried fruit. That ratio, plus a drying cycle running many hours under vacuum on a lot of electricity, is most of the price before anything is packed or posted. Firmer, less watery fruit shrinks a little less, and very watery fruit a little more. Our fresh to freeze-dried converter does the weight arithmetic, and is a home freeze-dryer worth it works through the sums if the prices have you thinking about making your own.

Indicative UK online ranges by fruit, last checked September 2026:

Ranges vary with the fruit, the form, the origin and the seller, and organic and named-origin lines sit above them.

How to judge a pack of freeze-dried fruit before you buy

1. Read the ingredients. Plain freeze-dried fruit should list the fruit and nothing else.
2. Check the weight, then work out the price per 100g.
3. Choose the right form: whole, slices, pieces, crumb or powder.
4. Look for a stated country of origin if provenance matters to you.
5. Check the best-before date. Unopened packs are usually dated a year or more ahead; the Food Standards Agency explains what that date does and does not mean.
6. Prefer resealable packaging, or plan to decant into an airtight jar.
7. Add delivery before comparing two sellers.

Freeze-dried fruit portions and 5 A Day

Weight for weight, freeze-dried fruit carries far more sugar and calories than fresh fruit, because the water has gone rather than because anything has been added. A typical serving is about 10g, a small handful, which started life as roughly 100g of fresh fruit. As a rough guide, plain freeze-dried berries tend to fall somewhere around 330 to 390 kcal and 55 to 75g of sugars per 100g, but figures vary a good deal between fruits, forms and brands, so the label on the pack you are holding is what counts.

The NHS counts 30g of dried fruit as one of your 5 A Day, and advises eating dried fruit with meals rather than between them, to reduce the risk of tooth decay. See freeze-dried fruit and your 5 A Day and freeze-dried fruit and teeth. Buying a kilogram does not change the portion size.

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Where to buy freeze-dried fruit: the short version

For one plain pouch for baking, buy online from a wholefood shop or a specialist and expect roughly £5 to £14 per 100g, depending on the fruit and the form. If you want it today, a high-street health food shop will sell you a 30g sachet, which on the ranges above works out nearer £11 to £21 per 100g: fine for a trial, expensive as a habit. If you bake every week, a 500g or 1kg bag and a row of airtight jars will save real money. Whichever route you take, do the sum the pack price hides: divide by the grams, multiply by a hundred, compare like with like. The freeze-dried fruit section takes each fruit in turn if you are still deciding.