Which dry fruit you like? ( Archived) (15)

I don't get it

Not crazy about dried fruit I perfer fresh.I have used dried fruit in recipes now and then but to just eat them plain no.

With the exception of dates and raisins everything else in your list is nuts....meaning from the nut family.

I was ready to click on apricots as my favorite dried fruit but it's not listed.

Not many fruits on your list,...a lot of nuts. All fruits dried are cool. Dried apricots are tasty! But start throwing in all those nuts and it becomes a trail mix that makes me gasy! Ooops,...pardon me!

Of what I've made/tried, I'd have to say pears or sweet cherries!
They're sweet as candy & twice as dandy!

Bananas are pretty good too!

I tried drying cantaloupe, dried well but had a very different taste than fresh, not near as sweet!

In the late 70s I worked as a migrant laborer in the fruit orchards in western Colorado. It was great, we workers picked up all the wind blown & over ripe fruit & canned or dried most all of it!
Most fruits took about 3 or 4 days to dry in the Colorado summer sun.
We'd make fruit leather(fruit roll-ups) by pureeing it in a blender then spread it out on plastic wrap on plywood.
It's a great way to store fruit for the winter.

The problem with most commercial dried fruit is that they add sulfur
dioxide to preserve the color! Or they coat it in sugar like pineapples, mangoes & papayas.





SHANTI

I like apricots very much.Normally durring summer here due to extreme weather we dont use nuts but in winter we use them a lot