**Dried Foods:**
– Bouillon cubes
– Bakers yeast
– Instant breakfast
– Instant coffee
– Powdered eggs
– Instant oatmeal
– Instant noodles
– Non-dairy creamer
– Snack bar or food bar
– Instant soup
**Dried Plant Foods:**
– Dried apple
– Dried apricot
– Banana chips
– Dried cherries
– Dried fig
– Chenpi
– Coconut
– Dates
– Goji berries
– Lavashak
**Dried Nuts, Seeds, and Fruits:**
– Nuts
– Sunflower seeds
– Pumpkin seeds
– Chia seeds
– Flaxseeds
– Papaya
– Pasilla (dried chilaca chili pepper)
– Peperone crusco (Crusco pepper)
– Pink peppercorn (dried berry of the Peruvian peppertree)
– Prunes (dried plum cultivars)
– Raisins (dried grapes)
– Ristra (drying chili pepper pods)
– Sun-dried tomatoes
– Tklapi (pureed fruit leather)
– Watermelon (freeze-dried or rack dried)
**Dried Vegetables and Seeds:**
– Chuño (freeze-dried potato product)
– Daikon (dried Japanese radish)
– Hoshi-imo (dried sweet potatoes)
– Lefse (Norwegian flatbread)
– Nori (edible dried seaweed sheet)
– Beans (various large plant seeds)
– Grain (wheat, corn, soybean, etc.)
– Maize (dried for popcorn)
– Carnaroli (Italian rice)
– Lentils, chickpeas, millet, etc.
**Dried Meats, Seafood, and Meat Products:**
– Dried mushrooms (shiitake, straw, morel)
– Mushroom extract (concentrated paste)
– Bottled kusaya from Niijima
– Katsuobushi shavings from a package
– Kippered split herring
– Maldives fish
– Mojama
– Biltong
– Bresaola
– Cecina
– Charcuterie
– Country ham
– Dried shrimp
– Dried shredded squid
– Stockfish
– Tatami iwashi
– Vobla
– Apohtin
– Bak-kwa
– Bayonne ham
– Black Forest ham
– Bündnerfleisch
– Gwamegi
– Juipo
– Kusaya
– Lutefisk
– Piracuí
This is a list of dried foods. Food drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water from the food, which inhibits the growth of bacteria and has been practiced worldwide since ancient times to preserve food. Where or when dehydration as a food preservation technique was invented has been lost to time, but the earliest known practice of food drying is 12000 BC by inhabitants of the modern Middle East and Asia.