Create allergy card
← Browse ingredients

Dried Currant

Dried currant is preserved currant fruit commonly used in baking, desserts, grain dishes, and savory stuffings.

Dried currant — illustrative ingredient image

About Dried Currant

Dried currant is a dried fruit whose name has two common culinary meanings. It may mean a true currant from the Ribes group, or the small dried grape sold in baking as a currant. These are different fruits, so the source determines the product’s size, flavour, colour, and texture.

Dried true currants are generally tart, fragrant, and chewy, while dried grape currants are usually sweeter, denser, and more raisin-like. Either may be used in baking, desserts, preserves, sauces, grain dishes, stuffings, and savoury recipes. Cooking softens the fruit and spreads its flavour through a dish.

The fruit is typically small, dark, wrinkled, and chewy, although true currants may be lighter or more translucent and grape currants may be nearly black. It can be used whole, chopped, soaked, or simmered. The source fruit determines whether the result is more sharply tart or sweet and dense.

Ingredient type
whole food

FOLLOW IT TO THE PLATE

Where will you meet it?

Explore the dishes that use this ingredient and their country and cuisine connections.

Explore linked dishes

ON A MENU OR LABEL

Find local names and written forms to help recognise this ingredient.

See local names

Where dried currant appears

1 linked foods

Find foods to recognise by country and type. Recipes and products vary; these are recorded ingredient connections.

Showing 1–1 of 1

Desserts

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for dried currant

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

dried currant

Available names only. Languages may be spoken in other countries; a name alone does not identify every ingredient in a dish.

Dried Currant nutrition & diet

Dried Currant nutritional value

Reference: Currant, dried

Per 100 g of the edible portion of the stated reference food.

Calories
291.1kcal
Protein
2.7g
Carbs
69.0g
Fat
0.5g

Reference example for the named food and preparation, per 100 g edible portion. This is not a universal value for every recipe or brand; packaged products should be compared with their own label. © Food Standards Australia New Zealand. AFCD Release 3, food F003331. Available carbohydrate excludes sugar alcohols; energy converted from kJ to kcal (÷4.184). Australian data may not be appropriate for use in other countries. There are limitations associated with food composition databases. Food composition data used in the database or databases may represent an average of the nutrient content of a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time. The nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially between batches and brands because of a number of factors, including changes in season, processing practices and ingredient source, and methods of calculation. Data licensed under the FSANZ Data User Licence Agreement, based on CC BY-SA 3.0 AU: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science-data/monitoringnutrients/afcd/datauserlicenceagreement.

Portions & preparation

Confirm whether the entry means dried currant fruit or another locally named product before selecting a reference. Use the edible fruit portion as sold, noting stems, seeds, added oil, or sweeteners. Rehydrated currants and those cooked into fillings require matching prepared-form references.

Compare the right form: Match references to the identified currant species or local product and its dried, seeded, sweetened, or rehydrated edible form.

Diet considerations

Dried currant fruit is plant-derived when it contains only the identified fruit. Compatibility changes with added sugar, oil, coatings, dairy, or cereal ingredients in baked goods and stuffings. Portion is important because dried fruit is concentrated by removal of water; grains, pastry, and other starches alter carbohydrate patterns.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

AI-generated illustration for visual context. It does not identify a particular product or establish allergen content.

Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3, 2025 — Currant, dried ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

Last recorded verification: .