Homemade Healthy Persimmon Roll-ups that kids love! (and better for teeth too!)
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Have you heard of a fruit called Persimmon? It is a popular fruit in Asian countries that are harvested in the fall. My parents have 2 persimmon trees in their yard that produces many many delicious persimmons and we're so blessed to eat as many persimmons as we want every fall.
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persimmon tree at my parents' house
After enjoying so many of these delicious persimmons, we still had so many of them left over and needed a way to utilize them. I decided to go to the internet to look for recipes using persimmons, and it being Halloween season and seeing all the candy everywhere, I decided to try to make a healthier version of the Fruit Roll-ups using only natural ingredients. Typical Fruit Roll-ups contain Corn Syrup as the main ingredient and has many other non-healthy items such as artificial food coloring that are not so good for you. I used the recipe courtesy of https://www.marthastewart.com/275469/persimmon-recipes. I added some cinnamon sprinkles to the recipe so it only used 4 natural ingredients: Pineapples, Persimmons, Honey and Cinnamon. And How special is it that I was able to use local honey that came from our own Dental Hygienist Megan's Bee farm?
![persimmons (the soft kind)](https://assets.appletreepediatricdentistry.com/Images/Sites/A/AppleTreeDental/570628.jpeg?crop=(216.00,201.60, 2807.99,3830.39)&srotate=0)
Persimmons (the soft kind)
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Ingredients: Persimmons, Pineapples, Honey, Cinnamon (not shown)
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Extra special that I was able to use local honey that came from our own dental hygienist Megan's bee farm.
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Pureeing the mixture
![before putting in the oven](https://assets.appletreepediatricdentistry.com/Images/Sites/A/AppleTreeDental/569583.jpeg?crop=(345.04,302.39, 3066.64,3023.99)&srotate=0)
Laying out the mixture on a sheet pan before putting in the oven at 175 degrees.
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Finished fruit leather product after a whopping 7 hours in the oven at 175 degrees! The recipe called for 2-4 hours in the oven, but needed more time
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Beautiful and delicisous Persimmon Roll-ups
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Kids approved them! They were absolutely delicious!!