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Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) drying (including freeze-dried) and/or dehydrating fruits, vegetables, and soup mixes and bouillon and/or (2) drying and/or dehydrating ingredients and packaging them with other purchased ingredients, such as rice and dry pasta. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Manufacturing v2
Inherited from
Manufacturing
Companies mapped
0 of 0
Primitives
57 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 311423
Establishments
276
Employees
17,886
Annual payroll
$963.8M
Payroll per employee
$53.9K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-472
  • 5-939
  • 10-1939
  • 20-4949
  • 50-9929
  • 100-24932
  • 250-4999
  • 500-9995

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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