Some people like to eat dried fruit. They think it concentrates the essence of fruit and tastes good. However, some people never eat dried fruit, and feel that this processed food is often unhealthy, and eating raw fruit is the most nutritious.

So is dried fruit a healthy food? The nutritionist in the explosion nutrition class will give you a good talk: < P > What is dried fruit? Many people will think of dried dates, raisins, persimmon cakes, or crispy bananas, preserved apricots, and candied hawthorns. But in fact, everyone made a mistake in this understanding.

The real dried fruit actually refers to the product without sugar, salt, oil and any food additives, which is a natural state after the fruit is dried, whether it is sun-dried, air-dried or freeze-dried.

In other words, the dried dates, raisins and persimmon cakes we mentioned earlier can be said to be real fruits. Banana crispy skin, preserved apricots and candied hawthorn can be called "pseudo-dried fruits", and they all add some food additives, which will make the taste more beautiful.

compared with fresh fruit, the real dried fruit will lose water and vitamins, and also concentrate sugar, so the taste will be sweeter, but the calories will be higher. However, dried fruit has advantages over fresh fruit. It is reasonable to say that dried fruit concentrates the essence of fruit.

Dried fruit concentrates the minerals, dietary fiber, antioxidants and other components of fruit. For example, every 1g of dried apple contains 45mg of potassium and 8.7g of dietary fiber.

Fresh apples contain 11 mg of potassium and 1.2 g of dietary fiber per 1 g of dried apples. It is not difficult to see that potassium is concentrated 4-5 times, while dietary fiber is concentrated 7-8 times.

As for the "fake dried fruit" mentioned earlier, you can eat it occasionally to satisfy your appetite. However, from a health point of view, these "pseudo-dried fruits" are added with additives such as salt and sugar, which are easily harmful to health if eaten frequently. For example, the banana crispy skin mentioned earlier often has a fat content of 1% ~ 2%. Eating more will make us fatter and fatter.

Generally speaking, "pseudo-dried fruit" advises people to eat less or not, which is not very healthy. The real dried fruit can be said to be more nutritious. Although it can't replace fruit, it's good to eat a little occasionally and use them instead of fruit.