Based on results of weight reduction during thawing, all osmotically pre-treated strawberry samples showed a bet-ter retention of their water content. This superior behaviouris more pronounced when alternative carbohydrates are used, at all temperatures presented. In Fig. 4b, drip loss measurement results are demonstrated for strawberry sam-ples, untreated and pre-treated with the osmotic solutes,stored at −16◦C (180 days). The increasing trend of drip lossmeasurement results was in accordance with the decreasingtrend of texture measurement (firmness) results. Frozenstrawberry samples pre-treated with oligofructose and HDMwere stable (especially at −16◦C); pre-treated samples by usingglucose presented less stability as shown in figures (initial val-ues for drip loss for samples of −16◦C, untreated, pre-treatedwith glucose, HDM, and oligofructose: 14.82, 5.42, 3.62 and5.79 g/100 g, respectively).