Just like our ever popular Citrus Mix, The Zesty One gives you a selection of all the basic citrus fruit slices, only we have swapped out the clementine for a handful of strawberries and raspberries. A Zesty selection pack of dried fruit slices and berries.
Selection includes sliced and dehydrated orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, strawberries and raspberries, all ready for your fruit punches and summer cocktails.
35 gram minimum weight.
Country of origin will be stated on the pack.
Zesty Dried Fruit Selection
We suggest you use your sliced fruit within six months of purchase, however dried fruit has been known to last for years!
It is absolutely essential to keep the fruit in a dry atmosphere, out of bright light and with the top of the bags turned over a few times.
This fruit is certified organic, and comes to you as close to its natural state as can be, therefore you may see the odd bump or blemish on the skin.
No known allergens are used in any of our products, but whilst all care has been taken, we cannot completely guarantee that cross-contamination has not occurred.
Strawberries are dipped in organic lemon juice before drying to help preserve their colour and flavour.
We try to be as observant as we can during the preparation, but the odd pip or seed may sneak through – don’t worry, we don’t charge extra for these
The fruit in this pack forms the central core of all cocktail garnish. You would be pretty hard pressed to find a cocktail that does not call for at least one of these ingredients.
We give you oranges from Spain. These beauties are of course organic, vegan and bursting with vitamin C and sunshine.
The ones we use are medium sized and plump full of juice. Their lightly dimpled skin is simply scrubbed in cold water and sliced. We aim at two millimetre slice widths, but as our attention wanders - never a great thing with knives around - so the thickness varies. Generally we aim at giving you the full wheel slice, but if the fruit are just a bit bigger, we go for the half moon effect to ensure it fits in all size glasses, from a tall slim Tom Collins to a fat and generous Copa glass.
The next most prolific ingredient in your bag, you will notice is lemon. These babies are also organic, unwaxed and Spanish. One thing with these, is that they are bountiful with the pips, we do try to flick them away wherever we spot them, but one or two might sneak through.
No drinks cabinet should ever be without a lime and these zesty little babes are indispensable for the mixologist. Hailing from Mexico these are a lovely solid little fruit that leaves us with virtually zero waste due to pith or the plug end.
Then you see our pink, organic Spanish grapefruit, deliciously bitter, we cut these into half or even quarter moons.
Strawberries, blueberries and raspberries are of course organically grown. The strawberries are simply washed sliced, the raspberies are washed and left whole. The blueberries have a wash, a quick blanch and a rest in the freezer before going into the dehydrator.
A popular flavour profile for gins, where the flavours of citrus peel – for example lemon, lime a variety of grapefruit and bitter or sweet orange – play a prominent role. Gins often focus on these notes because of the lively and refreshing quality of citrus flavours. Because of these qualities, citrus gins often work well in long drinks such as the Gin Tonica or Tom Collins. Le Tribute Gin from Spain is made using six varieties of citrus peel; lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, kumquat and tangerine, all in addition to lemongrass, which adds further citrus notes. Other examples of citrus gins include Bluecoat, Hunters and Tanqueray No. Ten.
CREDIT David T Smith author of The Gin Dictionary published in the UK by Mitchell Beazley, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.
The Zesty One along with some other fruits, have had a packing upgrade! The new pouches give a much more airtight seal after opening, to keep your garnishes even better for even longer.
But best of all - they are completely recyclable, so pop them into the recycling bin with a clear conscience.
For fruit nutrutional values, visit each individual fruit tab.
In descending order of content, each The Zesty One pack contains:
Oranges, Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Strawberry slices, Raspberries.