On the 24th Augusts at the Institute of Horticulture, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies,  a workshop “Candied fruits from vegetables and their preparation” was organised in the frame of the project “Revival of old traditional fruit, vegetable and ornamental plants and their products: Heritage Gardens Tour”.

The leading researcher of the Institute of Horticulture Dalija Segliņa hold a lecture about the technologies and equipment of vegetable production, the quality indicators and the factors influencing them. As in any production process, also in the production of candied fruits, the main thing is to formulate what is the end product that you want to achieve.

After the lecture the participants got acquainted with the existing processing equipment of the Institute, as well as equipment used for production of candied fruits.