Dried fruits made by natural drilling method have high nutritional value, and their moisture content is usually between 15%-32%, while dried fruits made by freeze drilling are below 8%. Due to the decrease of water content, the substances in it are highly concentrated, especially many sugars have strong antiseptic function, which can be preserved for a long time at room temperature without loss.
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Advantages of dried fruit:
1, the chemical fiber in the exocarp can be eaten.
Vitamin C is very harmful in the whole process of fresh fruit drying. But many benefits of fresh fruit remain in dried fruit. You can eat all the chemical fibers in the exocarp. Exocarp is the area with the highest dietary fiber content in fresh fruits. After drying, dietary fiber will not be affected and will be preserved.
2, easy to carry and store
Although the sugar content of dried fruit is similar to the starch content of rice, it belongs to high-calorie food, but it can be made into small bags, and it is easier to control the amount by eating only one handful or one small bag at a time, so as not to eat it like fresh fruit, and always afraid that it will go bad after eating.
3, can be paired with a variety of foods.
Dried fruit can replace sugar to sweeten many foods, and can also be added to various foods to enhance the texture of food. For example, add raisins, jujube, longan and so on. When cooking porridge, cooking rice and beating soybean milk, it tastes light, sweet and delicious.
Throw away the bread with jam and butter for breakfast, and grab some raisins and walnuts directly with whole wheat steamed bread, which is definitely a surprise. Most importantly, the nutritional value of dried fruits is much higher than that of artificially added sugar.
References:
People's Network-Is the nutritional value of dried fruit low? Dried fruit has six advantages.