The original intention of candied fruit is to take fruits and vegetables as raw materials and then pickle them with sugar or honey. Now it has become a traditional product name in China.

Variety:

1, candied fruit: raw materials are candied fruit and honey, and the finished products are slightly transparent when soaked in a certain concentration of sugar solution, such as honey kumquat, sweet-scented osmanthus and peeled olive.

2. Sand returning: After the raw materials are boiled with sugar, the surface of the finished product is dry with white sugar coating, such as candied wax gourd strips, golden dates, kumquat cakes, etc.

3. Candied fruit: After the raw materials are made into candied fruit, after drying, the surface of the finished product is not sticky and transparent, and sugar-free cream is precipitated, such as preserved apricots, pineapples, ginger chips and papaya.

4. Preserved fruit: sweeteners, spices, etc. When added to raw materials in the process of sugaring or boiling sugar, the finished product has a dry surface and a strong fragrance, such as clove, Li Xuehua Ruth, Bazhen plum, plum-flavored kumquat and so on.

5. Licorice products: The raw material is rough fruit, soaked with food additives such as sugar and licorice, and then dried. The finished product has three flavors of sweet, sour and salty, such as preserved plum, licorice olive, dried tangerine peel and preserved plum.

6. Fruit cake: the raw materials are processed into paste, and after concentrated drying, the finished products are in the shape of slices, strips and blocks, such as hawthorn cake, appetizing kumquat and peony bark.