Dried fruit is fresh fruit after peeling, taking the core, sugar boiling, soaking, drying and finishing packaging and other major processes made of fruits and vegetables food, with bright transparent color, dry surface, slightly sticky and water content low characteristics.

Preserved fruit, also known as candied fruit, mostly peaches, apricots, plums, dates or winter melon, ginger and other fruits and vegetables as raw materials, with sugar or honey pickled and processed, in addition to snacks or snacks can be eaten directly, but also can be used as a cake, cookies, and other desserts on the dots.

There are many kinds of dried fruits, and the more famous traditional products mainly include dried apples, preserved pickled horn, preserved apricots, preserved pears, preserved peaches, preserved fruits of Taiping, preserved plums, sliced hawthorns, and fructan skins.

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Candied fruit is a traditional food with national characteristics, and has a history of more than 2000 years. East Han people Zhao Hua compiled "Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Annals" book has "Yue to sweet honey pills (wood party) to report to Wu to increase the gift of sealing. This is the earliest record of preserves in China. This is China's earlier written records about candied fruit. 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 significant development, the formation of "fried, brewing, exposure, grits" and so on - a whole set of processing technology.

This makes the preserved food products and varieties greatly increased, become a kind of food independent of the forest of the "honey fried" food. The "honey fried" refers to 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.