Blå Band

Blå Band was founded in 1951 in Landskrona, Sweden, food brand specialising in lightweight, nutritional, and ready-to-eat tasty dehydrated pack meals. Originally made in collaboration with the Swedish military, the company became known for producing nutritionally balanced ration packs using advanced drying and freeze-drying techniques pioneered after the Second World War. This method helps to preserve flavour, colour, consistency and nutrition, and is effective in everything from vegetables to meat and fish. They use different methods depending on the ingredients, i.e. freeze-dried, vacuum-dried, puff-dried or air-dried.

Taking a lot of pride in their food, they have their own chefs and product developers. These members of their team bring extensive culinary experience and expertise with them. Their dried meals average 150g in weight, and each portion offers between 600-700kcal. Once produced they have a shelf-life of 2-3 years.

Since 2016 “wet” ready to eat meals have also formed part of their complete range. This offer 550 kcal per main meal and have a pack weight of 430-450g approx. From the point of packaging the shelf-life on these are between 3-5 years depending on the meal.