The 80's?!! No, no, no. The idea is much older than that of leggings and mullets and LA Gear sneakers!
It is difficult to know when or who first developed fruit leathers. However, many believe that peoples of the Middle East were among the first to discover that fresh fruit could be utilized and preserved year round if pureed, cooked, and dried. It is likely that an early flavor for fruit leathers was apricot. Antiquarian cookbooks refer to fruit leathers as Persian or Middle Eastern, in fact. Armenian cookbooks refer to the treat as bastegh and give recipes for making them at home, discussing the "old ways" these fruit leathers were produced. The process recommends that the fruit treat be made in dry, sunny weather in that the cooked and pureed fruit be poured onto muslin sheets, hung outside to dry, sprayed with water on the reverse side so that it could be peeled off the muslin, and left to dry again outside in the sun. Recipes recommend that the fruit leather be brought in at nightfall but returned to sunshine the next day if not firm to the touch. The finished product was cut into desired shapes and placed into a glass jar for storage. Updated recipes have the cook pour the slurry onto waxy paper or plastic wrap and place it in the sun under cheesecloth, still others recommend the use of ovens or dehydrators for quick, reliable drying.
2006-06-06 13:41:49
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answered by ♫ sgrfsh ♪ 6
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Fruit leather, made with real fruit, has been around for quite a while (maybe centuries) as a way of preparing a dried fruit snack. It's something people used to make at home. The commercial product was definitely around in the 80s, possibly a little sooner than that.
2006-06-06 13:46:43
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answered by just♪wondering 7
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I loved fruit rollups. I thought they were the most awesomenest thing in the world. And yes I know awsomenest is not a word LOL.
2006-06-06 13:44:50
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answered by samkat1972 2
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Fruit leather is a lot older - maybe the 1880s.
Fruit Roll-ups were marketed in the 1980s. I remember when that was the new thing. I remember when they came on the market. My mom had been making those for years before that in our dehydrator. Nothing new for me. Mom's are better.
2006-06-06 13:45:36
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answered by mickjam 5
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Yes, in the mid 80s. It was supposed to be another way to get kids to eat fruit. They're not healthy as they were marketed. I remember getting them as a treat/dessert in my lunches as a kid.
2006-06-06 13:44:24
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answered by Belle 6
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it's been around for hundreds of years, drying fruit pulp is not a NEW discovery! It just became popular again with all the cheap dehydrators now on the market
2006-06-06 13:45:23
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answered by Pobept 6
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80's
2006-06-06 13:43:10
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answered by hanzpoo 3
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They've been around forever - my great-grandmother used to make them.
But, it was commercialized in the 80s.
2006-06-06 13:43:37
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answered by Blim 5
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they have been around for a while but that is when they were marketed as a healthy alternature
what a joke
2006-06-06 13:42:23
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answered by my_bleww_eyes 5
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mid eighties is right..
2006-06-06 13:42:14
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answered by KT 7
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