Dried Apple Slices™ — 60 g

Real fruit slices. Gentle natural sweetness. An easy everyday ingredient for tea, infusions and the fruit pantry.

Discover the familiar fruit character of Dried Apple Slices / 苹果片 (Ping Guo Pian)—real apple fruit cut into convenient slices and dried while retaining its recognizable shape, pale golden flesh and naturally red-edged peel.

Mild, naturally sweet and easy to recognize, Dried Apple offers an approachable way to explore fruit infusions and tea pairings without the stronger tartness, bitterness or earthy character found in some botanical ingredients.

With 60 g / 2.12 oz of pre-sliced dried apple, this convenient discovery-size format is ideal for fruit infusions, tea pairings, botanical combinations and simple pantry exploration.

Why You’ll Appreciate It

• 60 g / 2.12 oz — an approachable discovery size for fruit and tea exploration

• Real Apple Fruit — recognizable dried fruit rather than powder or a premixed blend

• Convenient pre-sliced format — easy to see, portion and prepare

• Familiar flavour — mild, fruity, naturally sweet and mellow

• Naturally attractive appearance — pale golden fruit with red-edged peel

• Versatile preparation — suitable for fruit infusions, tea pairings and botanical combinations

• Easy to pair — works well with compatible teas, floral ingredients and warm spices in appropriate recipes

• Beginner-friendly — one of the easiest dried fruits for exploring fruit-based tea rituals

Product at a Glance

• Product: Dried Apple Slices™

• Chinese name: 苹果片

• Pinyin: Ping Guo Pian

• Ingredient: Apple fruit

• Form: Dried fruit slices

• Net weight: 60 g / 2.12 oz

• Appearance: Pale golden to cream-coloured fruit flesh with naturally red-edged peel

• Flavour: Mild · Naturally sweet · Fruity · Mellow

• Category: Dried fruit / fruit infusion and pantry ingredient

• Preparation: Fruit infusions · Tea pairings · Botanical combinations · Appropriate recipes

• Tea leaves: Contains no Camellia sinensis tea leaves

• Packaging: Storage container

• Best for: Tea lovers · Fruit-infusion enthusiasts · Dried-fruit exploration · Beginners

Natural fruit slices may vary slightly in size, shape, thickness, colour, sweetness and texture between batches.

What Are Dried Apple Slices?

Dried Apple Slices are pieces of real apple fruit that have been dried to reduce moisture while retaining the fruit's recognizable form.

This product is presented as pre-cut dried fruit slices, with the natural peel remaining visible around the edges.

Unlike conventional tea, Apple is a fruit rather than leaves from Camellia sinensis.

Dried Apple is therefore better understood as a fruit and pantry ingredient that can be explored on its own or alongside compatible teas and botanicals.

Its familiar identity is one of its greatest advantages—it provides an easy starting point for someone beginning to explore dried-fruit infusions and tea pairings.

Taste & Character

Dried Apple offers a gentle and familiar fruit profile.

Flavour Character:
Mild · Naturally sweet · Fruity · Mellow

Drying changes the fruit's texture and can concentrate its flavour, so Dried Apple provides a different sensory experience from fresh Apple while remaining recognizably apple-like.

For people who prefer mild fruit flavours rather than pronounced tartness or strong botanical notes, Dried Apple offers an especially approachable option.

Natural variation between individual slices and batches may affect sweetness, tartness and texture.

What Do Dried Apple Slices Look Like?

Dried Apple Slices retain many recognizable characteristics of the original fruit:

• Thin round or oval slices

• Pale golden to cream-coloured flesh

• Red to reddish-brown peel around the edge

• Visible natural fruit structure

• Characteristic central fruit pattern

• Natural variation in shape and thickness

These variations are normal characteristics of real dried fruit.

The pale fruit flesh and red-edged peel also make Dried Apple easy to distinguish from darker dried fruits and more vividly coloured botanical ingredients.

How to Enjoy Dried Apple

Always follow the preparation directions provided on the product packaging or an appropriate recipe.

Simple Apple Fruit Infusion

Place the recommended amount of Dried Apple Slices in a clean cup or suitable vessel.

Add water according to the product-specific preparation directions and allow the fruit to infuse.

As the slices gradually soften, enjoy their mild and naturally fruity character.

Tea Pairings

Dried Apple can be explored alongside compatible loose-leaf teas through appropriate fruit-and-tea recipes.

Botanical Combinations

Apple can provide a familiar fruit element in suitable combinations with dried flowers, spices and other botanical ingredients.

Everyday Pantry Recipes

Depending on the recipe, Dried Apple Slices may also be incorporated into appropriate dried-fruit and culinary preparations.

Best Tea & Botanical Pairings

Apple's mild natural sweetness and familiar fruit character make it especially easy to explore with other ingredients.

Apple + Black Tea

Fuller tea character + familiar fruit sweetness

Black Tea provides a deeper tea base alongside the mild fruit character of Dried Apple.

Apple + Green Tea

Fresh tea character + light fruit notes

A lighter combination for people who enjoy fresh tea character with a familiar fruit element.

Apple + White Tea

Gentle tea + mellow fruit

White Tea offers a softer foundation that allows the mild Apple character to remain noticeable.

Apple + Cinnamon or Spice

Familiar fruit + warm spice character

Apple and Cinnamon—or other appropriate spices—offer a warmer flavour direction for recipes designed around fruit-and-spice combinations.

Apple + Floral Tea

Fruit character + floral aroma

Floral ingredients provide an aromatic contrast to the familiar fruit character of Dried Apple.

Different teas and botanical ingredients require different preparation methods. Follow guidance appropriate to the specific combination and recipe.

Dried Apple vs. Hawthorn

Dried Apple and Hawthorn can look somewhat similar in sliced form, but their flavour experiences are distinctly different.

Dried Apple

• Pale fruit with red-edged peel

• Mild and naturally sweet

• Familiar and mellow

• Gentle everyday fruit character

• Particularly approachable for beginners

Hawthorn

• Red-edged dried fruit slices

• Brighter and more tart

• Lively fruit character

• More pronounced acidity

• Suited to people who enjoy tart-fruit preparations

For someone new to dried-fruit infusions, Apple is generally the gentler starting point.

Hawthorn provides a noticeably brighter and more tart experience.

Dried Apple vs. Red Jujube

Dried Apple and Red Jujube both offer approachable fruit character, but they have different pantry identities and flavour profiles.

Dried Apple

• Familiar everyday Apple

• Thin dried slices

• Mild, fruity and naturally sweet

• Light and approachable

Red Jujube

• Traditional Chinese dried fruit

• Usually presented whole or sliced depending on the product

• Naturally sweet, mellow and rounded

• Deeper dried-fruit character

Dried Apple offers a lighter and more familiar Apple profile, while Red Jujube provides a rounder dried-fruit experience associated with Chinese pantry traditions.

The two may also be explored together when called for by an appropriate recipe.

An Easy Addition to the Tea & Fruit Pantry

Dried Apple Slices fit naturally alongside:

Black Tea · Green Tea · White Tea · Floral Tea · Cinnamon & Spices · Red Jujube · Hawthorn · Goji Berries · Citrus · Other Dried Fruits

Their familiar flavour makes them particularly useful when you want an approachable ingredient for fruit-and-tea combinations.

A simple way to think about different fruit characters:

Apple → Mild & familiar
Red Jujube → Mellow & rounded
Hawthorn → Bright & tart
Wu Mei → Deep & tart

For someone gradually exploring fruit infusions and botanical ingredients, Dried Apple offers one of the simplest places to begin.

Storage & Care

Keep the container securely closed in a cool, dry place away from heat, direct sunlight, moisture, excessive humidity and strong odours.

Use clean, dry utensils when handling the slices and reseal the container promptly after use.

Refer to the packaging for the best-before date and any additional storage or preparation instructions.

Product Guidance

Always follow the preparation and ingredient information provided on the product packaging.

If you have allergies or dietary concerns, review the final product label before use.

This information is provided for general product guidance and does not replace product-specific preparation or dietary information on the packaging.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Dried Apple Slices?

Dried Apple Slices are real Apple fruit slices that have been dried while retaining their recognizable fruit structure and peel.

This product is presented as dried fruit slices rather than powder or a premixed blend.

How much is included?

This package contains 60 g / 2.12 oz of Dried Apple Slices.

Are these real Apple fruit slices?

Yes. The product consists of real Apple fruit presented in dried, sliced form.

Are the Apple Slices pre-sliced?

Yes. The fruit is already presented in convenient dried slices for easy portioning and preparation.

What do Dried Apple Slices taste like?

They generally have a mild, naturally sweet, fruity and mellow character.

Exact sweetness, tartness and texture may vary naturally between slices and batches.

Do Dried Apple Slices taste like fresh Apple?

They retain a familiar Apple fruit character, but drying changes the texture and can concentrate the flavour.

The experience is therefore different from eating fresh, juicy Apple.

Is Dried Apple a tea?

No. Apple is a fruit rather than leaves from Camellia sinensis.

When prepared in water, it is more accurately described as a fruit infusion or fruit-based preparation rather than conventional tea.

Can Dried Apple Slices be infused in water?

Yes. They can be explored in appropriate fruit-based preparations.

Follow the product-specific directions for quantity, water temperature and preparation time.

What tea pairs well with Dried Apple?

Appropriate recipes may explore Dried Apple alongside Black Tea, Green Tea, White Tea and Floral Tea.

Each tea style creates a different fruit-and-tea experience.

Can Dried Apple be paired with Cinnamon?

Yes. Apple and Cinnamon or other appropriate spices can be explored together in recipes designed around fruit-and-spice combinations.

Can Dried Apple be paired with Floral Tea?

Yes. Appropriate recipes may combine Dried Apple with Floral Tea, bringing familiar fruit character together with floral aroma.

Can Dried Apple Slices be used in food?

Yes. Depending on the recipe, Dried Apple Slices may be incorporated into appropriate dried-fruit or culinary preparations.

What is the difference between Dried Apple and Hawthorn?

Dried Apple generally has a milder, naturally sweeter and more familiar fruit character.

Hawthorn is typically brighter, more tart and livelier.

Although both can appear as pale-centred, red-edged dried fruit slices, their flavour experiences are distinctly different.

What is the difference between Dried Apple and Red Jujube?

Dried Apple offers a lighter, familiar Apple character with mild natural sweetness.

Red Jujube has a deeper, mellower and more rounded dried-fruit character associated with traditional Chinese pantry ingredients.

Are Dried Apple Slices suitable for beginners?

Yes. Their familiar flavour, mild sweetness and recognizable sliced-fruit form make Dried Apple one of the easiest dried-fruit ingredients to explore.

Who are Dried Apple Slices best for?

They are especially suited to tea lovers, fruit-infusion enthusiasts, dried-fruit enthusiasts and people who prefer mild, familiar fruit flavours or are beginning to explore fruit-based botanical preparations.

Bring a Familiar Fruit Ritual Home

Pale golden fruit. Gentle natural sweetness. Everyday versatility.

Explore Dried Apple in a simple fruit infusion. Pair it with Black, Green, White or Floral Tea. Try an appropriate Apple-and-Cinnamon combination—or keep it in your pantry as an approachable base for fruit and botanical pairings.

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