Dried fruit

Dried fruit is fruit where the majority of the original water content has been removed either naturally, through sun drying, or through the use of specialized dryers or dehydrators. Dried fruit has a long tradition of use dating back to the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia, and is prized because of its sweet taste, nutritive value and long shelf life. Today, dried fruit consumption is widespread. Nearly half of the dried fruits sold are raisins, followed by dates, prunes (dried plums), figs, apricots, pe... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]

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  • Don’t Dehydrate Fruit in the Clothes Dryer (And Recipe for Chewy Dried Oranges)

    Source: KQED

    So, like other food preservationists and kitchen tinkerers, I love to dry things -- fruit slices, fruit leather, cheese, beef jerky, etc. In the heat of summer the sun does the work for me. But the other ten months of the year in Northern ...

  • Recipe of the week: Savory granola

    Source: Democrat and Chronicle

    When chilled, the oil will not separate. Instead of being a sow-your-wild-oats catch-all of dried fruits and nuts, honey and butter, it’s become the meeting ground of sweet and savory. This is true both for at least one commercial brand and a ...

  • Give Tu Bishvat fruit to children with caution

    Source: Jerusalem Post

    Beterem, the Israel National Council for Child Safety and Health, warns against allowing children under the age of five years to eat hard, rounded, small and smooth pieces of nuts and dried fruit. Last year, six children up to the age of three died from ...

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