Mazha Preserved Fruits

Mazha Preserved Fruits

　　Mazha Preserved Fruits are the collective name for the preserved fruit products made by processing enterprises in towns such as Tongxing, Longnan, and Baihe in Mazha. Leveraging the rich local resources of green plums, plums, ginger, and olives in Longmen, these enterprises produce preserved fruit health food products under three brands — “Tongxing Brand,” “Kaiming Brand,” and “Longnan Brand.” The product line includes five major series, 30 varieties, and more than 50 different packaging specifications of preserved fruits, candies, and fruit jams. These preserved fruits come in a variety of flavors — sweet, mellow, sour, salty, and spicy — and offer benefits such as aiding digestion, soothing the stomach, stimulating saliva production, quenching thirst, warming the stomach, and dispelling wind. They are excellent snacks and ideal gifts. The products are popular in markets such as Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta region, and are also exported to Southeast Asia, enjoying a high reputation. In 2002, the total output of preserved fruits reached 1,380 tons, an increase of 480 tons compared to 2001, with a production value of 15.8 million yuan, up by 3.1 million yuan from the previous year.