Should I wash dried fruits and nuts from the packaging? Why is it necessary
How to get dried fruits? Harvested and dried, but not so simple. Traditionally, they are laid out in the hot sun, but today hygiene standards and consumer demand dictate faster and larger workpieces. Therefore, the sweet crop is sent to the factories and poured with steam or water there before being sent to the drying units. When can you not wash, and when it is necessary to thoroughly rinse dried fruits before eating? The answer is one: it depends on the manufacturer.
Clean Talk
In fact, if the fruits were dried in the sun, it is hard to imagine how much dirt and sand they gathered on themselves. Yes, they are covered with insect gauze or dried on the verandas, but dust settles on them inevitably. Later, when they are carried in bags, flaunted on the shelves "by weight", they attract insects and dust.
Such "wild" dried fruits need not only to be washed, but disinfected:
- Pour the treat in one layer into a wide bowl.
- Pour boiling water to completely cover the berries.
- Allow to stand and then recline on a sieve.
- In addition, pour boiled water to wash the remnants of grains of sand from the opened folds.
What about packaged ones?
Packaging protects against dust, gases and other troubles, but only the finished product. Therefore, whether or not to wash it, depends on how the product was produced. If these are cheap trays wrapped in film, it is likely that they are the same “wild” goodies, just put up in a warehouse.
More confidence is caused by factory goods, with a full label (when produced and distributed in trays, composition, calorie content, shelf life, etc.). Ideally, it should also indicate there: whether the fruit has been steamed or not, you need to wash it before eating or it is superfluous. Unfortunately, such information is most often not available.
Definitely do not require washing fruits and nuts in packaged and sealed packaging. They are included in the category of snacks, are being tested as products that are completely ready to eat (no one is washing bread or sausage?).
Nuts do not wash in principle. If there are fears on their account that the kernels are baked in the oven or in a pan, but the peeled nuts usually fall into the package after the appropriate procedures.
So, dried fruits by weight need to be washed, but not from the factory packaging (if sand, traces of mold or erosion are not visible, otherwise it is better not to take the products or rinse with boiling water).
Bunch of nuts and dried fruits
Do I need to wash dried fruits for a bouquet? Some masters assure that no: the recipients themselves will wash the berries. However, the resource purityis.decorexpro.com/en/ notes that giving edible souvenirs is better ready to eat. In addition, slightly steamed dried fruits are easier to put on skewers, which replace the stems of the “flowers”.
Important
Due to excess moisture, a bouquet of dried fruits will quickly deteriorate, so the drier the details, the better.
If the bouquet is large, then it is impossible to eat it at a time. And so that it does not deteriorate, the details of the bouquet should be as dry as possible.
Therefore, for a large-scale composition, one of three things is needed:
- take factory dried fruits (pre-peeled) medium-dried;
- pour boiling water over the boiled water (but do not boil) and pat it dry with a clean cloth;
- sanitize berries with a steam cleaner and, if necessary, remove residual moisture.
It is better to close the finished composition with a transparent bag. A little about packaging: the pattern, inscriptions for the occasion, etc., decor will not be superfluous - such a package will protect the mouth-watering souvenir from dust and preserve the festive appearance of the gift.
Dried fruits are a tasty and, of course, healthy alternative to sweets and other sweets.And if you collect a beautiful composition from them, you get an original and mouth-watering gift that will delight the recipient for a long time (after all, dried fruits are stored for a very considerable time without any refrigerator).
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