Dried fruit has an extended shelf life & so could provide a good replacement to newly fruit, letting away from year fruits to become available. Drying out occurs as skillful way to preserve fruit in the absence of refrigeration. Dried fruit is typically added to baking mixes and breakfast cereals.

Due to the a river loss experient in the period of related dehydration, dried fruit may have a stronger flavour. Yet a drying out run as well destroys virtually all of the Vitamin C in the food, so that the dried version of the fruit has merely a fraction of the levels of Vitamin C that would survive in the fruit whenever it were freshly.

Commercially prepared dried fruit could contain sulfur dioxide which can trigger asthma around sensitive individuals, though dried fruit forgoing sulfur dioxide is as well available, particularly in health places.