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Drying Under Aegean Sun

Drying fruit is an age-old practice designed to preserve the fruit by reducing microbial activity and minimizing physical and chemical changes. There are two ways to dry figs. The first is to allow them to dry in the sun, and the second is to process them using machinery.We use the traditional method of sun-drying to preserve our figs. Sun-dried figs retain more of their natural shape, and also have a much deeper flavor.
Figs are not harvested until they are fully ripe and start to get dry on the branches of the trees usually from the start of September. Harvested figs are then dried in a natural way by exposing them in direct sunlight for an intense drying process. These fresh figs are laid on special drying trays under the warm sun. After delivery of the best dried figs in our region by the manufacturer, they are fumigated at the factory right on arrival. After calibration, figs are selected under ultra violet lamps for sorting out Aflatoxine contaminated ones.Then washed, processed and stored in a cold store according to their size. The figs are packed after final quality control in packages ready for delivery.

Some of the facts

• Turkish figs will continue to ripen after being packaged. The fig’s fruit honey penetrates the skin, and those with thin skins will gradually become darker. That’s why there is some variance in the color of natural dried figs.


• You may also notice a white powder on some dried figs. This is called bloom. The bloom is rich in nutrients, and it is one of the precious features of high quality figs.


• The highest quality fig fruit comes from the 38 N Aydin Mountain area in Turkey. Aydin Mountain is adjacent to the Aegean Sea, where the sea wind and long sunshine duration make it one of the best fig production areas.


• The special features of its places of production,using local natural resources and suitable climate of area such as long sunhine duration with more photosynthesis,irrigated by glacier-molten water,over 20 Celcius degrees at night,220 days without frost(so that figs can fully absorb nutrients), and big day-night temparature difference(so that more nutrients can be stored) makes our region figs exceptional.