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dried fruit
Fruit whose moisture has been removed through sun-drying, hot-air drying, or freeze-drying. The formal, written-Japanese equivalent of the more common everyday term ドライフルーツ.
Compound of 乾燥 ('drying; dehydration') and 果実 ('fruit'). A formal term for dried fruit, appearing mainly in labeling, ingredient lists, nutritional writing, and food-industry texts.
Usage
- In everyday conversation, Japanese speakers overwhelmingly prefer the loanword ドライフルーツ.
- 乾燥果実 appears on packaging ingredient lists, customs documents, food-safety regulations, and nutritional articles.
- Common examples of dried fruit: レーズン (raisins), プルーン (prunes), ドライマンゴー (dried mango), 干し柿 (dried persimmon), 干しブドウ (dried grapes/raisins).
Common collocations
- 乾燥果実を食べる: to eat dried fruit
- 乾燥果実を加える: to add dried fruit (to a recipe)
- 乾燥果実入り: containing dried fruit
- 乾燥果実ミックス: dried fruit mix
Similar words
- ドライフルーツ: dried fruit — everyday, casual loanword; the default term in speech and most food packaging.
- 干し果物: dried fruit — native Japanese expression using the verb 干す ('to dry in the sun'); somewhat old-fashioned.
- 干し柿: dried persimmon — a specific traditional Japanese example.
- 果実: fruit — the formal counterpart of 果物.
Related Words
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ドライフルーツ (dried fruit)
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干し果物 (dried fruit)
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干し柿 (dried persimmon)