Turkey

Health-filled Snacks for a Full Life

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  • Recuperative Diet
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  • From Türkiye to Everywhere

Snacks from Türkiye

Türkiye is an agricultural country with fertile lands and is renowned for its high-quality dried fruits and nuts. With experience that goes back over a 100 years in exporting these dried fruits, it is now exporting them to 150 countries.

Dried fruits and nuts like almond, walnuts, hazelnut, pistachio, chickpeas, dried apricots, dried fig, raisins, are consumed as a major raw material in the bakery and confectionery industries, as an ingredient in dried fruit and nut mixes and as snacks. Türkiye is internationally renowned for its high quality products. With respect to production and export shares of dried fruits and nuts, our country is one of the most important supplier in the world. The demand for organic dried fruits is significant and the number of organic farmers is increasing by the years.  


Recuperative Pistachio

The pistachio is the ultimate snack and the perfect complement to desserts like baklava. It is very rich in its nutritional value. Pistachio quality is generally checked according to the high oil content and the ratio of crust. When these features are seen higher quality than others, which grows pistachios in Türkiye.

Majority of pistachios exported from Türkiye are Gaziantep type pistachios. Siirt pistachios, which is an another type, production is much less than Gaziantep type pistachios. Prized for its flavor and bright green color, it is also rich in vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber. They are hulled during the course of season whenever is needed and only Siirt type pistachios are hulled right after harvesting. The main differences between Gaziantep and Siirt pistachios are their fat rate and size. Gaziantep type pistachios are smaller despite high fat content. On the contrary, Siirt pistachios are larger in size, however contain less fat ratio. With these quality pistachios, Türkiye is the world’s third-largest pistachio producer and exports to 99 countries. 


Facts

Today, the consumption of dried fruits has become an essential part of healthy consumption.Dried fruits and nuts are invaluable for human health and their nutritional value is quite high. Moreover, they are cholesterol-free, rich in vitamins and minerals, and totally fat-free; a good source of fiber and also rich in antioxidants.

Turkish dried fruits and nuts sector is proud of its high-quality products and export experience spanning over one hundred years. Türkiye is a major producer of organic dried figs, raisins, apricots, hazelnut, and exports to more than 150 countries.

Before export, strict standards are applied to ensure each box of dried fruits and nuts is free of any imperfections. These products are known for supreme quality and utmost cleanliness in international markets.

According to nutritionists nuts and natural dried fruits, which are extremely rich in nutritional value, both speed up our metabolism and contribute to our health by strengthening our immune system.

Türkiye, a country rich in raw materials and production, has the opportunity to export products at more convenient and right pricing.

Due to Türkiye’s geopolitical location, it exports dried fruits, nuts, and their various processed forms to more than 150 countries all over the world.