? The first thing you need to know is what is dried fruit? We also call it dry preserves, to maintain the original fruit and vegetables or block shape, by the sugar boiled or sugar dip after drying the non-sticky edible processed products. We call it high sugar products if the sugar content is about 65%-75%, and we call it low sugar products if the sugar content is about 35%-45%. Some have a sugar coating on the outer skin, similar to a layer of frosting, and these come in iced, custard and cocoa varieties. Just like we usually eat apricot preserves, peach preserves, apple preserves, pear preserves, etc.; What are the types of preserved fruits and candied fruits according to geography? It can be divided into northern preserved fruit and southern preserved fruit. Northern dried fruit mainly raw materials after processing, sugar cooking, and then sun-dried, its color mainly yellow or amber, bright and transparent, dry surface, and eat a little sticky, water content of 20% or less. There are mainly dried jujube, dried apple, dried apricot, dried sago, dried fragrant fruit, dried pear, dried peach, dried begonia and so on. And dried southern fruit refers to sugar water chestnuts, winter melon strips, sugar ginger slices, sugar lotus root slices and other dried fruits with a layer of white sugar coating hanging on the surface, which is characterized by a high sugar content, crisp and tasty.
What are the types of preserved fruit? We also need to know the candied fruit. Candied fruit is also called wet preserves, it is the raw materials in the sugar dip or sugar cooking process, added some sweeteners, spices and made. It is also divided into candied preserves and sand preserves. Candied candied fruit is the raw material by the candied honey system, the finished product was half-wet state, slightly transparent, we often eat sugar plums, honey cherries, honey kumquat, belongs to this category. Return to the sand preserves refers to the raw materials by the sugar, sugar cooking, the finished product surface dry, with white frosting, we often eat winter melon strips, sugar orange cake, golden jujube, red and green silk, white sugar prunes is this category.