Fruits are loved by everyone. Regardless of your age and taste palette, even you must have some favourite fruit. If we are looking to refresh our taste buds and do so in a healthy way, fruits are an ideal choice. But if you want to take the nutritional experience one step further without compromising on taste, dry fruits are an even better option! If you have a habit of snacking when you are anxious, bored, or hungry between meals, dry fruits are your best friends. Dry fruits are still your best friend if you have a sugar craving but are trying to watch your calorie intake.
Since the dawn of global trade, cultures have gotten closer. One of the first exports of this expanding culture was the exchange of dates from the Middle East! Middle Eastern countries have dates as part of their culture, but the small fibrous fruit is loved almost everywhere in the world. They are sweet, chewy, healthy, and a very good ingredient for desserts. It is also a natural sweetener and goes well with smoothies and shakes. It is also used in nutritional bars, bakery products, and other commercially made desserts.
Dry fruits and dried fruits are loosely interchangeable terms. But the fact remains; they are two different things with different characteristics and uses. You will notice that both nuts and dehydrated fruits count as dry fruits in the normal lingo. So broadly, you could categorize dry fruits as dehiscent or indehiscent. Dehiscent refers to those dry fruits found inside a seedpod and indehiscent means the dry fruits not found inside a seedpod. These dry fruits include cashews, walnuts, almonds, pistachios, and every other nut that you can think of.
Diwali is a time of festivities and celebrations. Every year, we anticipate the coming of this auspicious event where everybody gets to feel their own kind of happiness. One of the most common parts of festivities is socializing and visiting friends and family members. When the frequency of visits is this common, and it is a festival, you better have something to delight your guests with! Rather than buying sweets like everyone else, why not make them yourself?
