Dried Kumquats

Kumquats (or cumquats) have been called "the little gems of the citrus family". In this regard, orange kumquats are the jewels of the citrus family. The flavour of these small oval fruits is that of a unique sweet-tart. Kumquat preserves, or dried kumquat, are ideal snacks for parties.

We can provide orange kumquat with or without a sugar coating, shaped round or long, either orange or yellow in color.

Orange Kumquats

Specifications: SO2 600 ppm max; Moisture 18-22%; Sugar 50-65 brix; Packed in 12.5 kg carton inners with 5 vacuumed bags 17.5mt/20'FCL.

Red, Long-Shaped Kumquats	Yellow Kumquats
Sugar Coated Kumquats	Sugar Coated Orange Kumquats

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Culinary uses include: candying and kumquat preserves, marmalade, and jelly. Kumquats more commonly appear in the modern market as a martini garnish, a substitute for the classic olive. They can also be sliced and added to salads. A liqueur can also be made by soaking orange kumquat in vodka or other clear spirit.

Health Benefits of Kumquat:

1,Like citrus fruits, kumquats also low in calories. 100 g of fresh fruit provide only 71 calories. Nevertheless, they are incredibly rich sources of health benefiting dietary fiber, minerals, vitamins, and pigment anti-oxidants that contribute immensely to our health and wellness.

2,Kumquats are eaten along with the peel, a unique feature that differentiates them from other citrus family fruits. The peel is rich in many essential oils, anti-oxidants, and fiber. 100 g whole kumquats provide 6.7 g or 17% of daily-recommended levels of fiber composed of tannins, pectin, hemi-cellulose, and other non-starch polysaccharides (NSP).

3,Fresh kumquats are packed with numerous health benefiting poly-phenolic flavonoid anti-oxidants such as carotenes, lutein,zeaxanthin, tannins...etc. The kumquat peels is composed many important essential oils in it including limonene, pinene, α-bergamotene, caryophyllene, α-humulene, and α-muurolene. Together these compounds impart special citrus aroma to the fruit.

4,rther, fresh fruits contain adequate levels of some of anti-oxidant vitamins such as vitamin A, C and E. Altogether these phyto-chemical compounds in kumquat fruit helps scavenge harmful oxygen derived free radicals from the body and thereby protect us from cancers, diabetes, degenerative diseases and infections.

5,Like oranges, kumquats also very rich in vitamin C. 100 g fruit provides 47.9 or 73% of RDA (Recommended daily allowances). Vitamin-C is one of powerful natural anti-oxidant which has many essential biological roles like collagen synthesis and wound healing; anti-viral and anti-cancer activity; and helps prevent from neuro-degenerative diseases, arthritis, diabetes...etc by removing oxidant free-radicals from the body. Furthermore, vitamin C felicitates iron absorption in the food by reducing it from ferrous to ferric form in the stomach.