Preserved fruit and candied fruit are the growing memories of many consumers of Shanghai Food Expo. The sour and sweet taste really makes people have a big appetite and the index finger moves greatly, especially when the appetite is not good, including one in the mouth, the taste buds are quickly opened.

There are many kinds of sweet and sour

China's latest national standard GB/T 10782-2021 "General Principles for the quality of preserves" has a specific introduction: preserves refers to fruits and vegetables as the main raw materials, adding or not adding food additives and other accessories, by sugar or honey or salt curing (or not curing) and other processes made. It can be roughly divided into the following categories:

Classification of preserves

1. Preserves

Raw materials by sugar (or honey) boiling or dipping, drying (or not drying) and other processes made with wet sugar liquid surface or impregnated in concentrated sugar liquid products, such as sugar green plum, honey cherry, honey kumquat, red and green melon, sugar rose, fried red fruit, etc.

2. Preserved fruit

Raw materials by sugar stains, drying and other processes made slightly transparent, surface no icing precipitation products, such as apricot breast, peach breast, apple breast, pear breast, date breast, crabapple breast, sweet potato breast, carrot breast.

3. Cold fruits

Raw materials by salt, sugar, dry and other processes made of semi-dry products, such as Jiaying, prune, yellow plum, snow plum, orange peel plum, eight plum, clove olive, Fuguo, etc.

4. Conversational class

Raw materials by salt, sugar (or no sugar), dry and other processes made of products, divided into two categories of sugar and sugar, such as prune, plum, apricot, nine-made orange peel, sweet olive, liquorice kumquat, acacia plum, dried red bayberry, Bergamot, dried mango, orange peel, salt and jin grape.

5. Fruit cakes

Raw materials processed into sauces, products made by molding, drying (or not drying) and other processes are divided into cakes, strips and slices, such as hawthorn cake, hawthorn bar, fruit peel, hawthorn slices, orange peel cake, sour jujube cake, etc.

High salt and sugar should be appropriate, and can not replace fresh fruits and vegetables

Candied products are mostly salted or sugar-stained, and the salt or sugar content is generally high. A random selection of prunes is more than twice the daily recommended amount of sodium, we know that high salt and high sugar is an unhealthy diet, excessive intake of sugar, can lead to overweight, obesity and dental caries; Too much sodium, however, can lead to high blood pressure.

Purchase suggestion

1. Buy well-known products from regular sales channels

Products produced by well-known companies sold in large supermarkets are preferred. At the same time, pay attention to the product packaging label information, be sure to have the production license number, product ingredient list, the name, address, contact information of the manufacturer and distributor, origin, production date, shelf life, etc.

2. Observe the exterior color

Should buy full grain, size, thickness, dry and wet degree is basically the same, the fruit is round, the skin without damage products. The color of the preserved fruit is too bright to be carefully purchased, the color of the good preserved fruit is close to the actual color of the fruit, and should not contain impurities.

3. Smell

Good preserved fruit, preserves have the fruit's own aroma, if the smell is pungent or too sweet, odor, it is best not to buy.

4. Taste

It is best not to buy products that are too sweet, and the cyclamate and saccharin sodium added to the preserves will harm human health if they exceed the standard. In order to pursue taste, candied fruit will have a variety of additives and preservatives, and a large amount of fruit nutrition loss, high sugar. Not suitable for long-term, large quantities of consumption. Especially children, the elderly, obese and diabetic people. In addition, some preserved fruit contains high salt, children should eat less, eat carefully.

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Source: Tongxiang City Center for Disease Control and Prevention

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