Candied fruit, also known as preserved fruit, is a food made of peaches, apricots, plums, dates, wax gourd, ginger and other fruits and vegetables and pickled with sugar or honey. Candied fruit can be eaten directly as snacks or snacks, and can also be used as decorations on cakes, biscuits and other snacks.

"Jimi à n" originally meant to be a processing method with fruits and vegetables as raw materials and pickled with sugar or honey, and now it has evolved into a traditional food name in China. It is said that candied fruit was invented by the chef in Ming Dynasty. The original meaning of "candied fruit" is a processing method which takes fruits and vegetables as raw materials and is pickled with sugar or honey. It's a big concept. Beijing, Taiwan Province Province, Chaoshan and Zhaoqing are the main producing areas of candied fruit.

Development history of candied fruit

Candied fruit is a traditional food with national characteristics in China with a history of more than 2,000 years. The book "The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu Yue" written by Zhao Hua, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said: "The more you want to repay Wu Zengfeng with fragrant pills (wood squares)." Record. This is an earlier written record of candied fruit in China. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the development of agricultural production, especially the development of fruit, beekeeping and sugar industry, the processing of candied fruit has made great progress, forming a whole set of processing techniques of "frying, brewing, exposing and preserving", thus greatly increasing the products and varieties of candied fruit and becoming a "honey-fried" food independent of the food forest. It is known that "honey frying" means that people put fresh fruits into honey to concentrate, so as to remove a lot of water from the fruits and enhance the flavor, hence the name. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the processing technology and varieties of candied fruit were further developed, and its processing technology was becoming more and more perfect and mature, which was not only famous in China, but also in the world. At the 19 13 Panama World Expo, the candied fruit produced in China won the gold medal and was highly appraised. At this time, the processing technology level of candied fruit can be said to have risen to the highest point in ancient times, and it was renamed "candied fruit". After the founding of New China, the candied fruit industry developed very rapidly, and some large-scale factories with strong production capacity were formed, which greatly improved the production capacity and made the candied fruit industry enter a prosperous period.