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In the candied form, the long, pointed seeds and caramel-like texture resembles dried dates, thus its nickname. One early traveller recounted his experience in meeting this form of the fruit for the first time. Knowing it was not a date, he could not account for the scratches he saw on the surface. He later found out that they were made by scoring knives used by the Chinese to slash the tough skins before stewing them in sugar or honey syrup. It is also noted that he favoured the honeyed ones over the sugared variety. The juice of the jujube has long been used in making lozenges to alleviate chest complaints, but the word "jujube" has since acquired another meaning -- that of a confection. Law's Grocers' Manual of c1895 explained that jujubes used as a confection, or medicated lozenge, were made with Arabic gums and not with the true jujube fruits.