2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Dried fruits are delicacies from nature. Tasty as cakes, but as useful as fresh fruit, dried fruit is a natural multivitamin.
Real dried fruits are 100% natural products and do not contain any artificial enhancers. Dried fruits are concentrated foods, ie. contain very little water. They are rich in simple sugars (glucose and fructose) and therefore high in calories.
However, modern technologies for natural drying allow to preserve the supply of vitamins and minerals. Dried fruits are delicious and useful, and drying is one of the healthiest ways to prepare winter food.
Almost all fruits that grow in our gardens can be dried. Most often, however, apples, plums, apricots and pears are dried. The most suitable varieties of apples for drying are Golden Parmena, Stark, various local varieties. Healthy fruits are chosen for drying.
First you need to rinse them and dry them. You can cut them into slices or oblong slices that are neither too thick nor too thin.
As the apples darken quickly after slicing, put the pieces in water until you have processed all the fruit. It is recommended to pour a little tartaric acid into the water.
To do this, prepare a one percent solution, ie for 1 liter of water will need 10 milliliters of vinegar. Before you put the fruit to dry, put them for 2-3 minutes in boiling water. Then quickly cool them in cold water and drain.
You can dry the apples both in the oven and in the sun. If you are going to dry in the oven, preheat it to 80-85 degrees.
Monitor the fruit regularly and when they lose a lot of water and visibly reduce their volume, lower the temperature to 45-50 degrees. Note that drying should not take more than 5 hours.
You can dry both in the sun and in the shade. At some distance from the fruit you can stretch cheesecloth to protect them from insects. If you dry in the sun, the process lasts about 10 days when in a shady place - it takes several weeks.
Dried apples are rich in vitamins B, C and E, minerals iron, magnesium, phosphorus, pectin and fiber. 100 g of dried apples contain about 244 kcal.
Dried pears are rich in vitamins B and C, minerals iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium, phosphorus and fiber. 100 g of dried pears contain about 263 kcal.
Dried figs are rich in B vitamins, minerals iron, copper, potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium. 100 g of dried figs contain about 250 kcal.
Dried apricots are rich in vitamins B, A, C and E, minerals phosphorus, magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc, and fiber. 100 g of dried apricots contain about 240 kcal.
Dates are rich in B vitamins, minerals potassium, iron, magnesium, fiber, 100 g of dates contain about 280 kcal.
Prunes are rich in vitamins B, A, C and E, minerals magnesium and phosphorus, fiber. 100 g of prunes contain about 240 kcal.
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