what happens when you dry fruit that increases calories?

Question

Fresh fruit is not very high in calories (except bananas i guess). What happens on a chemical level when you dry fruit? Why are calories increasing? Why isn’t calorie level the same when all you do is let water evaporate?

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Answer 1

The total number of calories in it doesn’t change. It’s the calories per gram of food that does. Because you are simply removing the water weight. Dried fruit is pretty much chemically the exact same as fruit right of the vine minus the water