Dried fruit - an organic candy
Organic, unrefined, sugar is far less harmful that regular refined white sugar which passes directly into the bloodstream. It contains vitamins that you won't find in the latter. Sugar is responsible for a lot of disease, and is an immune suppressant - excessive consumption is deadly, so always bear this in mind. Sugar is rarely something anyone needs to add to their diet. Fruit sugar (fructose, glucose) is the least unhealthy choice, so dried fruit is a great kind of candy.
Drying food is the oldest, simplest, and most natural method to preserve food. While the nutritional value of dried fruit (weight for weight) is slightly reduced compared to fresh, the smaller size results in an efficiently concentrated package of goodness. It will last for up to a year without any refrigeration.
Dried fruit is a valuable source of vitamins, minerals and fiber. It gives a useful energy boost at times when this is required, and is fat free. Commercially bought dried fruit often has vegetable oil (in the case of bananas), sulphites and added sugar. Dried fruit requires many hours (eg 18 hours in the case of banana chips) of drying at around 50/60 degrees centigrade and so it is impractical unless you own a food dehydrator or live in the right kind of climate.
A word of caution: Never eat a large amount of dried fruit since it will rehydrate in the stomach and you need to drink plenty of liquid to offset this. Also it is a choking risk for young children.
Source - Organic Candy.