What’s the difference between the dried turkish apricots and other apricots? How the best dried Turkish apricots are made? These two questions are frequently asked on the internet. It is believed that the turkish apricots is named by the place apricot tree is planted, and most of the apricot trees in the world are in Turkish, which is a very controversial explanation. It is true that Turkish is a big apricots production country, but it doesn’t mean that it provides most of the apricots products in the world. If you want to buy the apricot product that actually produced in Turkish, you have to check the raw material origin other than the names of the product.
The dried Turkish apricots can be made in various ways, and it can be made in the natural way in the places where the climate conditions are suitable, or it can be made with the drying equipments without the limitation of the weather condition. The apricots dried naturally have to experience a long drying process, usually more than 20 days or even longer, the flavor of it can be kept very well and the apricot product don’t contain many preservatives, of course the price is a bit higher, but they deserve it.