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This is Chris Redgrave for Zions Bank Speaking on Business.
Preserving food has always been important because you'll always need it to survive and never know what might happen. For hundreds of years, our ancestors were heavily involved in preserving food, but in a modern era with refrigeration and improvements in food technology, societies have drifted from that. The freeze dryer Harvest Right in Salt Lake City provides is a way to refocus on food preservation.
Harvest Right has invented a freeze drying machine for home use. With a team of engineers, company founder Dan Neville spent years developing a product of a size and price point that would be available to a wider audience. The product is catching on not only in Utah, where emergency preparedness and food preservation are an important focus, but also across the United States.
The Harvest Right machine is easy to use. All you do is put the food you want to preserve on the tray, shut the door, press start and then it'll tell you when it's done, usually in about 24 hours. Freeze dried food maintains 97 percent of its nutrients. This is because in the freeze drying process, food is rapidly frozen and then placed in a vacuum, so cell structure, nutrients, shape and color are all preserved. These foods taste fresh and remain flavorful, as well as last 25 years. Until now, the main way to get freeze dried foods was through a food distributor; however, Dan started Harvest Right to allow anybody to preserve the foods they love.
The Harvest Right product appeals to anyone who is interested in preserving food as well as those who grow a garden or have fruit trees and want to save their produce.
Already experiencing great success, Dan sees the growth potential for Harvest Right as the world discovers the benefits of freeze drying foods. Check them out online at harvestright.com.
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For Zions Bank, I'm Chris Redgrave, speaking on business.
Harvest Right 3070 W. California Ave., Ste. E Salt Lake City, UT 84104 801-550-6316 www.harvestright.com
