Good dried cranberries should be bright and shiny deep red even after processing, and there should be no other colors caused by spoilage.
When selecting dried cranberries, you can grab them with your hands and pinch them. If the dried cranberries are still loose after being released, it means that the moisture content is low, so the dried cranberries are easier to preserve. On the contrary, if the cranberries are squeezed and dried into a ball, it means that they are not dry enough and easy to deteriorate, so it is not recommended to buy them.
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Cranberry, also known as cranberry and cranberry, is a kind of berry with bright red skin and growing on short vines. Its name comes from "cranberry", and its name comes from cranberry flowers like a crane's head and mouth. Growing in cold North American wetlands. Cranberry is also called cranberry and cranberry. The name comes from the original name "Cranberry", which is named because the flowers of cranberry are very similar to the head and mouth of crane.
It is a kind of berry with bright red skin, which grows on dwarf vines and grows in cold North American wetlands. Its global production area is less than 40,000 acres, limited to Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington in the northern United States, Quebec and British Columbia in Canada, and Chile in South America. Quality cranberries contain air and can float on the water.
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Baidu encyclopedia-dried cranberries