too good to be true?

So  my assistant manger bought me some new snacks from a company called Brothers-All-Natural.  They are freeze dried apples and Asian pears.  The package claims that each 1/2 cup bag contains about 1.5 pieces of fruit.  But the nutritional label says:

Cals 40

tot carb 9

fiber 1

sugar 7

vit c 2%

Everything else is 0.

So does freeze drying food suck out its calories and nutritional content?  I mean they taste amazing and are a perfect snack for me but how can 1.5 apples freeze dried be less the 40 cals?

Simple answer...if you freeze dry it you're taking the juice out right? Apple juice has calories, yes? So there you have it...juiceless apples so less calories.

I thought freeze-drying took out the water, not the juice.  So the sugar stays, but all the water content disappears.  I mean, you can see that as the calories shrunk, so did the amount of fiber.  Maybe they used a Gala apple or some other small apple?  Which for them was 1.5 fruit for 40 calories?

The juice is water...fruits have water content...that's the juice. If all of the sugar stayed in the fruit then the volume would be much greater. It would be more like dried fruit right?

Hmmm..now I'm curious. What makes freeze dried fruit so different from dried fruit? I'd guess the juice is being removed which removes a lot of the sugar during the freeze drying process. It is also less dense but I don't know how it gets that way.

Their story: https://www.brothersallnatural.com/content/Fa qs.htm#nutritionInformation

The freeze drying process is when they freeze a product then put it in to vacuum. This turns ice directly in to vapor.

UD