Dried fruit

Dried Fruit in Armenia

Dried fruit is fruit that has almost no moisture in it. They are dried in the sun or with the help of dryers or dehydrators. Unlike ordinary fruits, they are more preserved. People use it for sweeteners or snacks.

There are also succade.

Dried Fruit Media

• 

  Dried fruit and nuts on a platter, traditionally eaten on Tu Bishvat.

• 

  Nineveh: Procession through groves of date palms, one of the world's first cultivated trees

• 

  Other types of dried fruit and nuts

• 

  Temple of Nahkt, Egypt. Harvesting grapes, many of which would be dried into raisins.

• 

  Figs in the basket, Pompeii: Dried figs were very popular in ancient Rome.

• 

  Dozens of types of dried fruit and fruit leather at a market in Yerevan

• 

  Both golden and conventional raisins are made from the same grape. Golden raisins are treated with sulfur dioxide.

• 

  Apricots drying in the sun in a mountain-slope orchard of Turkey

• 

  A TRAY OF DRIED SWISS CHARD TAKEN FROM THE HANGING STOVE DRIER. These, when soaked in water, swell and make excellent greens for soups and stews many months after drying.