How to choose the right fruit?

Dried fruits are an excellent alternative to conventional fruits when they are not available. It's not a secret for anyone that dry fruits are not only a storehouse of useful micro and macro elements, they have sugar in their composition, and it is known to be caloric. In terms of their useful qualities, dried fruits do not differ much from fresh fruits, for good reason they were taken by travelers in ancient times, because they are useful, easy and nutritious. The first thing you need to pay attention to when choosing dried fruits is their color. They should in no case be bright, because dried fruit is a dried product, and during the drying process, the products lose their bright color and become dull. If on the counter you see a brightly colored dried apricot or transparent raisin with gold leaf - this is a clear sign that such products have a high content of chemistry. To determine the naturalness of dried fruits, you can read the information on the package, if you buy dried fruits by weight, then carefully consider them.

Remarkable is the fact that the less a person interferes with the process of drying fruits, the better they end up in. For example, in Asia, where fruit is used to dry fruit, apricot is the most useful kind of dried apricot. The apricot is an apricot that has dried on the tree with a bone, it contains a lot of potassium. Less valuable and useful properties are kaisa (dried apricot with a squeezed stone) and dried apricots.

Some unscrupulous producers rub dried fruit with oil to make them shine, it's better not to buy such dried fruits. For example, prunes are soaked in inexpensive vegetable oil or use potassium permanganate, and also boiled water to get a coffee shade (while it loses its useful properties).

According to the domestic guest, there are two most common types of dried fruits:

Extra variety is the best and, as a rule, expensive kind of dried fruit, which can be consumed immediately after washing.

Table sort is dried fruits without diseases, rot, parasites and molds, but, as a rule, these dried fruits have not very presentable appearance (there are halves and fruits with impurities). Before consumption, such dried fruits should be washed.

Even if you bought the most expensive dried fruits, you must first wash them before using them, at the same time not only dirt is removed, but chemical reagents that process dried fruits so that they do not spoil for a long time. Soak the dried fruit for 15 minutes in water at room temperature.

Dried fruits, as is known, lead to gas formation, and if they are previously soaked for 2-3 hours in water, then this is not a very pleasant factor can get rid of.

If there is an opportunity before buying this or that dried fruit, take it in your hand, the dried fruit should be elastic and elastic, and not dry. A very dry dried fruit means that it was not dried properly, but too soft that it is stored incorrectly. Just smell to dried fruits, if you feel some strange or strange sign, this is a clear sign that before the tea is a bad product.

Usually, dried fruits are treated with sulfur dioxide, which is hidden under the name E220 on the package. For example, after processing E220, the raisin from dark brown becomes light with a golden hue, and the dried apricots becomes bright orange. Dried fruits treated with sulfurous anhydride do not rot, and they also do not start living creatures. Of course, this preservative in dried fruits contains little, but gastroenterologists do not recommend eating dried fruit containing E220.

It should also be remembered that dried fruits like mushrooms absorb harmful emissions, so buying them is best in the store, rather than in spontaneous markets.

As for the taste, the good dried fruits do not have a wine "burnt" taste.

Beautiful packaging is not a guarantee of a quality product. Dried fruits must comply with GOST, not TU. In most cases, dried dried fruits have in their composition not one preservative. It is desirable to buy dried fruits in a transparent package, so that the quality of the product can be determined by eye.

To store purchased dried fruits is best in a dark cool place without foreign odors, in which case they will retain their useful properties for a whole year. If mold appeared on them, it means that they should be thrown out, because dried fruits with mold can be poisoned.

As you can see, choosing quality dried fruits is not such a complicated business, the main thing is to listen to the above recommendations.