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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.
乾燥果実を食べる。
To eat dried fruit.
この店では様々な乾燥果実を扱っている。
This shop carries various kinds of dried fruit.
乾燥果実は栄養価が高く、保存にも向いている。
Dried fruit is high in nutritional value and keeps well.
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.