Candied fruit, is a fruit and vegetables and other main raw materials, add (or not add) food additives and other auxiliary materials, by sugar or honey or salt pickling (or not pickled) and other processes made of products.

Candied fruit, also known as preserved fruit, the ancient name of honey fried. Chinese folk molasses fruit food. Circulated in various places, has a long history. Peach, apricot, plum, jujube or winter melon, ginger and other fruits and vegetables as raw materials, sugar or honey pickled and processed food. In addition to being eaten directly as a snack or snack, candied fruit can also be used as a garnish on cakes, cookies and other treats.

Candied fruit is a traditional food with national characteristics, so far has a history of more than 2000 years. Into the Tang and Song dynasties, due to the development of agricultural production, especially fruit and beekeeping, the development of sugar industry, so that the processing of candied fruit has been a great development, the formation of a "frying, brewing, aeration, grits" and so on - a whole set of processing technology, which makes the candied fruit products and varieties of food products and a great increase, become a kind of food independently of the forest of "honey fried". The "honey fried" food. The "honey fried" refers to the people will be fresh fruit in the honey decoction concentrated to remove a large amount of water in the fruit, enhance the flavor, in order to facilitate the long term storage and get its name.