Eating food like green leafy vegetables, red meats, dried fruits, dried beans, and brown grains is a good way to get iron and other nutrients that a body needs.
" Without a doubt, there's a lot of nutritional benefit, even in dried (fruits), " said Linda Van Horn, a clinical nutrition epidemiologist at Northwestern University in Illinois.
" We use natural materials so as to preserve the mangrove forest at the same time, " Sodikin said, as he processed dried fruits before boiling them to extract the color for use as a dye.
In the Jewish communities where the pastry originated bapkus traditionally contained dried fruit and cinnamon rolled into an intricate swirl of dough and baked in a tin mold.