FIELD: food industry.SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the canning industry, namely, the canning of sweet cherry compote. Method is characterized in that the fruits laid in the can are heated by cyclic injection of saturated water vapor at a temperature of 105–110 °C for 110 s. Duration of the steam supply and holding cycles is 10 s and 10 s, respectively. During the whole process of steam supply, the outer surface of the cans is blown by a stream of air at a speed of 5–6 m/s, heated to a temperature of 110–120 °C. After that, a syrup with a temperature of 95–97 °C is poured into the cans, they are preliminary rolled by covers and heated in a stream of air at a temperature of 150 °C and a speed of 6.5–7 m/s for 5 minutes. Then the covers are rolled up and the heating is continued in hot water with a temperature of 100 °C for 12 min with further stepwise cooling in water with temperatures of 80, 60 and 40 °C, respectively, for 6, 6 and 6 minutes.EFFECT: invention makes it possible to reduce