Because dried black apricots need fully ripe apricots, it takes a long time to dry and bake. The blackness of dried apricots is caused by uneven sunlight intensity. In addition, the fructose in apricot meat will dye the skin caramel color, and the place where fructose is concentrated will turn black.
Turkey is a country spanning Europe and Asia, with the Mediterranean Sea in the north. It is a typical Mediterranean climate with large temperature difference between day and night and long sunshine time. Coupled with fertile organic soil, it is very suitable for the growth of apricot trees, thus becoming the largest apricot producing area in the world. Malattia, a city in central Turkey, is known as the "apricot capital of the world", and its annual dried apricot production accounts for 85% of the global total.