She grew up eating chamoy candy and sauce on fruit ... from working in a Japanese restaurant that makes its own umeboshi, she blends salt-preserved underripe ume plum with hibiscus flowers ...

In the 1970s, Mexican candy companies ... to a large settlement of Chinese immigrants). First, she salt-preserves slightly unripe ume plums (“You can also use Santa Rosa plums or apricots ...

Ayako Iino grew up in Nagoya, Japan, the largest city in the Chūbu region. Like many kids, she watched her mom make umeboshi, a traditional salt-cured plum pickle (and alkalizing dietary staple that’s ...