Round stone-fruit with soft flesh, related to the plum and peach. It is orange-yellow when ripe. [www.QinSen.com]
Contains a lot of vitamin A and kalium. [www.QinSen.com]
Apricots have to be picked when ripe and need to be eaten immediately, you can't store them fresh. Therefore a lot of jam is made out of apricots and are they dried or frozen often.