About dried fruit
Fruit dried or freeze-dried and sold loose by weight. Freeze-dried keeps the shape and snaps; sun-dried is chewy. Sold as listed above.
Also known as dried fruit, preserved fruit, freeze dried fruit.
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What people use it for
Eaten as a snack, baked into cakes and bread, scattered on cereal, or simmered into a sweet soup.
How to prepare it
Ready to eat. For baking, a 20 minute soak in warm water or juice plumps them up.
Keeping it
Airtight. Dried fruit goes sticky and can bloom sugar in humid air; the fridge stops both.
Questions people ask
Is there added sugar?
The plain dried and freeze-dried fruits have none added. Anything labelled preserved, candied or sugared does - sugar is the preservative.