Dehydrated fruits are dried fruits, but the effects on vitamins are different due to different dehydration methods. Dehydration methods include sun drying, air drying, infrared and microwave drying and vacuum freeze drying.
When it comes to dried fruits, you have to mention fruit slices.
Fruit slices are mostly fried in vacuum, with gorgeous color and charming taste, such as crisp dates, banana slices and dried fruits and vegetables.
The fat content of fruit is usually only about 1%, but the fruit slices can reach 10%~20%. Therefore, it is not recommended that you buy fruit slices while keeping in shape.
Among the dehydration methods, vacuum freeze-drying has the least vitamin loss, but the machine is too expensive and is not recommended. Followed by air drying, air drying is divided into three types!
1. Use a food air dryer (Taobao 200 yuan starts with a household one), and use a low temperature and a fan to take the water away.
(The air-drying method with the least loss of vitamins, so is the dried fruit in Jia Xiaoqi. )
2. Bake in the oven at low temperature (about 57 degrees).
3. Natural sunshine. (Xiaoqi doesn't recommend this method)
Xiaoqi low temperature air drying
production process
1 Wash, peel and peel fruits and vegetables. Cut into 2-3mm slices.
2 put them in an air dryer and arrange them as closely as possible. Fruits with strong taste, such as durian, should be placed in layers as far as possible to avoid cross-taste.
3 Adjust the air dryer to about 57 degrees (vitamins in fruits and vegetables will gradually evaporate above 60 degrees) for about 10 hour. Then check the dryness and increase the air drying time appropriately.
Making tips
Choose local ripe fruits in this season, and dried fruits will be sweeter.
Fruits with less water are more likely to succeed than fruits with more water, such as water persimmon VS stupid persimmon.
6-8kg fresh fruit, peeled, pitted and dehydrated, can be made into dry pulp less than 1 kg or 1 kg. Please put the dried fruit into a sealed bottle quickly to avoid getting wet. Please eat it as soon as possible.