Delicious to snack on or enjoy in desserts, dates and prunes are both dried fruits, but they aren't exactly the same. Here's ...

Bowl of prunes next to plums - Ligora/Getty Images Unlike dates, which are cured on the tree, prunes are a type of dried plum, which is a fall stone fruit. Specifically, most prunes come from the ...

Prunes are dried plums, specifically the fruit Prunus domestica L., which is a high-sugar plum of European descent. Manufacturers harvest the plums and then dehydrate (remove the majority of ...

Carlsbad plums are large prunes that are sold at Christmas. Use dried prunes in sweet or savoury liquid dishes such as cock-a-leekie, tagines, stews and compôtes. Slow-cook them with rabbit ...

What are dried plums, you ask? Well, they um, sort of come in a packet with the word "prunes'’ on the front. Let me know when that word loses its stigma and I’ll be chuffed. They have such a ...

But what exactly is a prune? In a nutshell, a prune is a dried plum — but not all plum varieties can be dried into prunes. Most likely, the prune you are snacking on hails from California.