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02 / HOW IT'S MADE

The 48-hour
rule.

The final quality of a jar is decided almost entirely in the first 48 hours after the fruit leaves the tree.

Follow the fruit ↓
Djirian durian process in the Di Linh highlands

⁠THE WINDOW

Shorten everything that can be shortened.
Never shorten what shouldn't.

An hour late and a little aroma is gone. A full day late and there is very little left to save. Every decision below protects the fruit before there is anything to rescue.

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Harvest —
reading the tree.

The fruit is picked entirely by hand, only when it has ripened on the tree itself. Not a day earlier. Our harvest crews work in pairs, and every pair goes out with a farmer who has been reading these trees for two decades or more.

Ripeness is read through three signs at once: the colour and dryness of the stem, the low hollow sound of the shell when tapped, and the faint deliberate parting between the spines. There is no instrument that reads these three together the way experienced eyes and ears can.

Durian harvest and collection
Djirian quality sorting process

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The first
twelve hours.

Within four hours of being cut, fruit reaches a collection point no more than five kilometres from the orchard. It is sorted by size, ripeness, and the condition of the shell. Fruit below export standard moves to the domestic fresh-market channel, so the farmer is paid either way.

By hour twelve, the flesh is separated from shell and seed in a climate-controlled room held between 18 and 20°C. Past that line, every step that follows becomes a rescue rather than a preservation.

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Thirty minutes
at minus forty.

The flesh enters a blast freezer at −40°C for roughly thirty minutes. At that speed, the ice crystals inside each cell stay extremely small—small enough that they don't tear open the cell walls.

It quietly decides whether the finished piece will snap cleanly under the teeth or crumble into powder. Everything after this rests on these thirty minutes going right.

Freeze-drying preparation at the Djirian facility
Team member inspecting freeze-dried durian by hand

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Twenty-two hours
of stillness.

Inside the freeze-drying chamber, pressure is roughly two thousand times lower than the atmosphere. The ice does not melt. It moves straight from solid to vapour—quiet, cold, and slow.

When the chamber opens, the fruit is still the fruit: lighter, drier, and strong enough to travel without a cold chain. Before anything is sealed, every piece is inspected for colour, shape, and texture. Our rejection rate is 8–12%—higher by choice.

AN HONEST NOTE
“The freeze-drying is currently carried out at a trusted OEM partner’s facility while our own plant is being built. The 48-hour window, twelve-hour line, twenty-two hours, and rejection rate are ours—not theirs.”

Our team is on site through every batch. We would rather say this plainly than have you discover it later.

WHAT THE 48 HOURS BUY US

Still fruit.
Just lighter.

97%of fresh-fruit nutritional value preserved
<4%final moisture
12months of shelf life
0preservatives, additives, or cold-chain required

One fruit. Three packs. Zero shortcuts.