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Prunes & Plums: Are They Good for You?

Prunes & Plums: Are They Good for You?

June 7, 2022 By Paul

When it comes to prunes and plums, they’re technially the same fruit but one of them is dried while the other isn’t. A plum is known as a stone fruit because it has a single hard pit that feels like a stone. A prune is very simply a dried up plum and because of this they tend to be more sweet but also don’t have as strong of a flavor. Finally, there are many different types of plums but the two most common forms are European and Japanese.

Key Takeaways:

  • Plums are members of the rose family and are a stone fruit because they have a single pit that is hard like a stone.
  • Plums and prunes aren’t technically the same thing because a prune is a dried plum. Not all plums become prunes.
  • Prune plumes are sweeter than regular plums but they also don’t have as strong or as robust of a flavor.

“For the past couple of centuries, “plum” has meant, in addition to a fruit in the prunus family, “very good and worth having” or “the best and choicest part” (as in, a plum position).”

Read more: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/are-plums-and-prunes-good-for-you/

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