Doesn't include food additives. It was dried as it is garden-fresh pear straight from the orchard. It was made from the best land of Youngsan river valley (Naju, Jeonnam, South Korea). It's easy to eat with unit-dose packaging. It's semi-dried pear.You can feel very chewy taste. Notice: It can be different to sugar content, color and hard by processing time and temperature because it was dried as it is.