Types of Dried Fruit
Types Of Dried Fruit is a structured food & drink dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Dried Fruit, Fresh Form, Primary Origin. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Mar 7, 2026
Included fields: Dried Fruit, Fresh Form, Primary Origin, Texture, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
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Useful for
- Comparing Dried Fruit, Fresh Form, and Primary Origin across food & drink entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Dried Fruit↕ | Fresh Form↕ | Primary Origin↕ | Texture↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Raisins | Grapes (Thompson Seedless) | Mediterranean / California | Soft, chewy, wrinkled | Most popular dried fruit worldwide, Sun-Maid girl is iconic, in oatmeal cookies dividing humanity, ants on a log with peanut butter |
Dates | Date palm fruit | Middle East / North Africa | Sticky, caramel-soft, dense | Oldest cultivated fruit (~6000 BC), Medjool dates are the king variety, natural caramel flavor, Ramadan iftar staple |
Dried Cranberries | Cranberries | North America | Chewy, slightly tart | Craisins brand name by Ocean Spray, sweetened because raw cranberries are too tart, salad and trail mix staple |
Dried Apricots | Apricots | Turkey (Malatya province) | Leathery, tender, slightly firm | Turkey produces 80% of the world's supply, Malatya is the apricot capital, orange sulfured vs brown unsulfured, high in potassium |
Prunes | Plums (d'Agen variety) | France / California | Soft, sticky, wrinkled | Rebranded as dried plums to escape old-person stigma, famous for digestive benefits, French pruneaux d'Agen have IGP status |
Dried Figs | Figs | Turkey / Mediterranean | Soft exterior, crunchy seeds inside | One of the first fruits cultivated by humans, Fig Newtons made them mainstream, seeds provide satisfying crunch, Mediterranean diet essential |
Dried Mango | Mangoes | Philippines / Thailand / India | Chewy, leathery, sticky | Tangy-sweet tropical flavor concentrated, Philippine dried mangoes are legendary, often sulfured for bright orange color |
Sultanas | Grapes (Sultana/Thompson variety) | Turkey / Australia | Plump, soft, golden | Lighter and sweeter than raisins, treated with oil to speed drying, essential in British baking, Christmas pudding staple |
Dried Cherries | Tart or sweet cherries | Michigan, USA / Turkey | Chewy, slightly sticky | Michigan produces most of the world's tart cherries, intense concentrated flavor, chocolate-cherry combo is elite, expensive but worth it |
Goji Berries | Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum) | China (Ningxia province) | Chewy, slightly tough, small | Superfood marketing phenomenon, used in Chinese medicine for 2000+ years, tiny red berries with earthy-sweet taste, acai's rival |
Dried Pineapple | Pineapple | Costa Rica / Philippines / Thailand | Chewy rings or chunks, crystallized | Concentrated tropical sweetness, often coated in sugar, rings look like golden flowers, popular in trail mix, goes well with coconut |
Currants (Zante) | Black Corinth grapes | Greece (Corinth) | Tiny, firm, intensely sweet | Smallest dried grape variety, named after Corinth, essential in scones and spotted dick, not related to fresh currants (Ribes) |
Dried Papaya | Papaya | Mexico / Thailand / Brazil | Chewy strips or chunks | Often dyed bright colors (red, green, yellow), tropical flavor, common in trail mix, frequently sugar-coated, Thai dried papaya is top quality |
Dried Coconut | Coconut meat | Philippines / Indonesia / India | Flaked, shredded, or chipped | Desiccated coconut essential in baking, toasted coconut flakes are addictive, copra (dried coconut) is a major commodity, lamington coating |
Dried Persimmon (Hoshigaki) | Persimmon (Hachiya variety) | Japan / Korea / China | Soft, caramel-like, coated in natural sugar bloom | Japanese hoshigaki are hand-massaged for weeks, white sugar crystals form naturally on surface, tastes like nature's caramel candy |
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