I don’t know but I don’t think I would want to rehydrate the freeze-dried fruit I got.
I had American persimmons, bananas, jujubes and a few other fruit. It was fun to eat at first. After a while, it got quite boring. The hard, dry texture was a turn-off.
I am sure there are plenty of people who love freeze-dried fruit. It is not something that interests me much.
I enjoy adding freeze dried fruit to oatmeal on backpacking trips. It makes oatmeal edible. 
Typically people re-hydrate freeze dried food, that is what I mean. 
I’d eat pawpaw oatmeal.
Oh it’s interesting how people’s habits differ. I’ve never rehydrated freeze dried anything, sounds disgusting! LOL
But I’m coming from the perspective of recreational snacking. Maybe you mean survivalist type freeze-drying or MREs.
PS freeze dried durian is amazing (non hydrated 
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Well, most things actually taste pretty much like what it tasted like before it was freeze dried, in my opinion. Are you sure that you have never tasted re-hydrated freeze dried food? It’s really popular in flavored instant oats (the fruit… like strawberries, for example).
I have re-hydrated dried fruit esp. dried jujubes. They need to be re-hydrated when cooking with them.
I do not re-hydrate freeze-dried fruit. After fruit are freeze-dried, the texture become dried, airy and spongy. I think to rehydrate them, they would turn into a soggy mess. Quite unappetizing, in my opinion.
Re-hydrate dried fruit, yes.
Re-hydrate freeze-dried fruit, no.
This place in RI sells pawpaws for $5 lb. No wonder they will sell out in 20 mins.
https://www.rockypointblueberries.com/pawpaw-pumpkin-walk/
@jcguarneri This could be a place you can try.
I think it would only be a soggy mess if you soak them too long. But to each his (or her) own. 
There are online charts that instruct you how to re-hydrate if you get interested in trying it.
Yep yep a few times in cereal or instant oatmeal, I.e. incidental eating
But if I buy freeze dried fruit (basically the only thing I would reasonably buy on purpose) I would not want to rehydrate it. It seems odd to buy freeze dried food only to rehydrate it, unless you are on an expedition or in an end-of-the-world movie 
I always thought the main attraction was the crazy feeling of eating, say, crunchy durian.
But like you say, different strokes for different folks!
It looks like they were planted in 2000. They had their very first substantial crop in 2011. So ~10 years from nursery planting in zone 6b.
We may stop by that farm tomorrow just to check it out. It is only an hour from here.
Crazy that it sells out in 20 minutes. First come first serve. So you just have to hope you are early enough in line.
You pawpaw heads are all nuts @TrilobaTracker @Vid.
Not me. I am not a big fan of pawpaws. I can eat a few. toxins in it makes me pause. We want to stop by the farm to see the trees because it is on our way to the Food Truck Festival in Newport, RI. That’s where I will spend money on, not on pawpaws.
20 year old trees. Mine is just 15. Should be pretty big.
Oh, man. That’s tempting! I’d hate to drive to Rhode island to find out I was too far back in line, though.
I wonder if there is anyone crazy enough to camp out the night before. Then again, people drive from all over the country for the OH pawpaw festival… I could see it.
If @mamuang isn’t going to eat all his pawpaws, maybe you can drive to his place next year and grab a couple lol. >_<
Once pawpaw trees really come in to bearing age 10+, you start collecting pawpaws by the bucket (the 5 gallon kind). It can be hard to keep up sometimes.
Maybe the bears will eat them instead of the apples?
That might be an additional reason to have
pawpaws.
The squirrels and racoons have just decided to have a go at pawpaws this year. I’m not sure what I would do if I had to deal with bears as well. Deer fences seem so inadequate for those of you growing pawpaws in Appalachia.
Actually, I have probably 100 pawpaw seedlings growing in pots in a woodland setting…and I’ve yet to have any eaten by deer. Jujube, yes. Apples, definitely. But not pawpaws.