Walnut candy is called Maren candy by Uighurs, and it is called cut cake or "Xinjiang cut cake" in some places. Cake-cutting has a long history. As early as the Silk Road, Xinjiang was an important transportation hub for caravans at home and abroad, and also an important food supply station.
Because businessmen travel long distances, the food they carry must be preserved for a long time and easy to carry, and it must be rich in various nutrients, amino acids and trace elements necessary for the human body, such as vitamin C. Otherwise, people who travel long distances will die of scurvy, like the sailors on Da Gama and Magellan's ocean fleet. The characteristics of easy storage, easy carrying and high nutrition of cut cake are meeting the needs of people who travel to and from business.
As far as the walnut kernel sugar series products are concerned, 80% of the selected walnut kernel content and other pure natural corn, grapes, eggs and other raw materials make the medicinal value of walnuts extremely high, and its dried nuts contain protein, fatty oil, crude fiber, calcium, iron, carotene, vitamin C and so on; Eating 0.25 kg of walnut kernel is equivalent to drinking 4.5 kg of milk or eating 2.5 kg of eggs. Its taste is pure, mellow, moderately sweet and sour, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, rich in nutrition, without any artificial additives, and it has a history of hundreds of years in Hotan area.