Pure, unsulphured apricots. Many commercial dried apricots are preserved with sulphur-based compounds (sulphites) in order to keep them looking orange. However, the sulphur is completely unnecessary from a nutritional perspective. At Healthy Supplies, we wholeheartedly recommend unsulphured apricots, and prefer them to the yellow ones. Though these natural ones are darker in colour, they are 100% apricot and, in our opinion, taste better and more fruit-like.

The bright orange apricots that most people are familiar with contain the preservative sulphur dioxide (SO2). This preserves the bright yellow colour by preventing the oxidisation of the pigments within the apricot during drying.

We prefer the natural, dark apricots above, but stock the yellow apricots in the section below.

The edible inner part of the apricot stone.