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Shipping Cooling Medium Selection: Comparing Dry Ice, PCM, & Gel Packs

Posted by Diego Loaiza on May 27, 2026 8:00:03 AM

 

Which Cooling Medium is Best for the Direct-to-Consumer Food Delivery Market?

 

Key Takeaways:

When choosing a cooling medium for the direct-to-consumer food delivery, it must keep its payload to specification upon arrival in any temperature condition over time and by any means of transportation with a minimum of a 95% success rate to be considered a viable option. Through our testing of dry ice, phase change materials (PCMs), and gel packs, dry ice not only proved to be the least costly, but also the highest performing cooling medium with the lowest mass in any container type.

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