Commercial Cannabis Freeze Drying

Freeze drying removes moisture content without heating or damaging a product, unlike other drying processes: during spray drying products are exposed to higher temperatures which could degrade a products bioactivity, while dehydrators shrink products (and can make them rock hard), and baking or grilling products changes their chemical composition.

Just add water! - Or another fluid or flavour. Freeze drying creates a honeycomb texture and retains a product’s size and shape. Due to holes left by ice crystals during the freeze dry process, rehydration is quick and easy.

Cuddon freeze dryers can freeze dry anything with a moisture content. Using fresh, frozen, fermented or cooked products as a starter, clients use our machines for multiple products which can be freeze dried whole, sliced, minced, slurried or in liquid form.

A product without moisture content can be preserved for longer. With quality packaging to block light/UV, heat and oxidization, the ability of a product to downgrade is significantly reduced, increasing shelf life.

Crop-to-Cure® techniques enable cultivators to take their crop from the garden to testing and package ready in a day or two, instead of multiple weeks or over a month. This also allows growers to trim and freeze their crop for future processing on demand, so that they can always offer a fresher, live dried flower instead of being forced to dry their entire harvest all at once.

Even some of the largest Cuddon HiLyph edition freeze dryers used in the Crop-to-Cure® process only take up a small portion of the space typically required for standard drying and curing techniques.

When plants are exposed to open environments during the drying and curing process, if humidity controls aren’t perfect, the chance for microbial growth or pest infestation becomes much higher. Lyophilized drying sharply reduces that possibility.