Plant-based ingredients often boost color vibrancy and flavor in consumer products with health, vegan and low-calorie positionings. Ever-popular on the market are dried fruits, which are incorporated as an ingredient in bakery products, trail mixes, snack bars, confectionery, ice cream, or a “ready-to-eat” consumer product of their own. In addition, some dried ingredients offer the potential to replace artificial additives for clean label preservation.