Dehydrating food has been a practical preservation strategy since ancient times. Today, dehydrated foods pop up everywhere from your favorite snack aisle to your local sporting goods store.

Foods rich in electrolytes, such as salted peanuts, can help your body retain and utilize water effectively. Salted peanuts stand out as a cost-effective, portable snack that provides protein, healthy ...

Seven testers ate the best backpacking food to rate each brand's taste, nutritional value, preparation, and feel.

In an ideal world, you would cherry-pick your very favorite dehydrated backpacking meals far in advance of an epic wilderness outing. But in reality, most of us are scrambling until the last ...

Dehydrating food is considered one of our oldest—if not oldest—method for preserving food, but it provides many other benefits, too.

This article was originally published on Backpacker. Welcome to Pouch Wars, a monthly taste-test of dehydrated backpacking meals. We’ve surveyed the market, sampling both big, corporate brands ...

The problem with buying backpacking food off the shelf? Unlike a tent, pack, or pad, you can’t “try out” a dehydrated pouch ahead of time. It may sport a photo of artfully styled green chile mac and ...

We conducted a blind taste test to review the best backpacking meals, including dehydrated, freeze-fried, vegetarian, and even keto options for camping.

We ate over 50 backpacking meals so you can have delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners in the middle of the woods. Here are 27 of the tastiest.