What candied foods are there?

Candied fruit is boiled with sugar, and its finished product is generally soaked in concentrated sugar solution, with delicate pulp and delicious taste. For example, candied red fruit, candied begonia, candied green plum, sweet-scented osmanthus and sugar rose all belong to this category.

2. Returning sand

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

After the candied preserved fruit is boiled, a layer of powdered sugar is hung on the surface of the fruit blank, which makes the product opaque, crisp in texture and high in sugar content. For example, all kinds of melon sticks, sugar orange cakes, sugar lotus root slices, sugar ginger slices, sugar kumquat, sugar lotus seeds, sugar water chestnut and green silk all belong to this category.

3. Preserved fruit

It is made by boiling with sugar stains and drying. Its color is brown, golden yellow or amber, bright and transparent, and its surface is dry. This is a slightly sticky dry product. For example, preserved apples, pears, peaches, sand fruits, jujube fruits, fragrant fruits, plums, hawthorn fruits and begonia fruits all belong to this category.

4. Preserved fruit

It is a kind of licorice cold product with various fresh fruits (blanks) as the main raw materials. Its external shape is generally kept as an atomic entity with a dry surface. Some varieties have frosted surface, sweet and sour and slightly salty, and have original fruit flavor. Such as green plum, Pei-Mui Chan, rock sugar bayberry, etc. All belong to this category, and there are many varieties.

Sweeteners, spices, etc. When added to raw materials in the process of sugar pickling or boiling, the finished products have dry surface and rich fragrance, such as clove, Li Xuehua, Ruth, Bazhen plum, plum-flavored kumquat and so on.

5. Categories of words

The raw material is dried fruit, which is pickled, added with food additives, with or without sugar, and with or without licorice. Products are sweet, sour and salty, such as preserved plum, preserved apricot, dried tangerine peel, spiced hawthorn slices, licorice olives and licorice kumquat.

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How to buy preserved fruits and preserves:

1, choose a brand.

Consumers should first choose the products produced by well-known enterprises sold in large supermarkets when they consume. The quality of preserved fruits and preserves in the market is mixed. It is best for consumers to go to large supermarkets and shopping malls to buy, but generally do not buy products with particularly bright colors or products with simple packaging.

2. See if the product packaging label is complete.

Name, ingredient list, net content, name and address of manufacturer or distributor, production date, shelf life or shelf life, product standard number, etc. It must be marked on the package.

3. smell the smell and distinguish the appearance.

After opening the package, pay attention to the fact that the product must have no peculiar smell. Taste and smell indicate the flavor quality of products (including taste and aroma), and all kinds of products should have their own unique fragrance. Products are not allowed to have foreign impurities, such as sand and hair.

At the same time, observing the product structure and form, the product structure can often reflect the internal quality of the product, which usually includes the fineness of meat, the uniformity of sugar distribution and penetration, and the fullness of particles.

The shape of the product indicates the appearance of the product, which usually includes whether the shape, size, length and thickness are basically the same, whether the icing on the product surface is uniform, whether there are surface defects such as shrinkage damage and cracking, and whether the particle surface is basically the same.

4. Differentiate consumer groups and choose different products.

Because the sugar content of candied fruit is usually high, which can reach 70%, it is best to choose low-sugar candied fruit products with functional sweeteners instead of sucrose for people who are not suitable for excessive intake of sugar, such as diabetics. In addition, some products have high salt content, and some products contain a lot of additives such as sweeteners, preservatives and pigments. Children should pay attention to the choice of these products, and it is recommended to eat them in moderation.

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