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Dried Plum

Dried plum is plum fruit preserved by dehydration and commonly eaten as a snack or used in sweet and savory dishes.

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About Dried Plum

Dried plum is plum fruit preserved by dehydration, generally dried whole, halved, or pitted. It is eaten as a snack and used in baked goods, compotes, sauces, relishes, fillings, stuffings, and sweet or savoury cooked dishes. The fruit’s natural acidity balances its concentrated sweetness.

Texture ranges from soft and chewy to leathery, dense, or firm, depending on the plum variety, moisture level, and processing. Flavour may be sweet-tart, jammy, or pleasantly acidic. The skin commonly becomes wrinkled during drying and may add chewiness or a slightly sharper note.

It may appear reddish purple, dark brown, or nearly black, and is sold with or without stones, whole, halved, or in other prepared forms. Drying makes the fruit smaller and denser. Rehydration softens it for sauces and compotes, while chopping helps distribute it through batters, fillings, and savoury dishes.

Ingredient type
whole food

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Dried Plum

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Dried Plum nutrition & diet

Dried Plum nutritional value

Prune (dried plum)

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the stated food form.

Calories
206.7kcal
Protein
2.6g
Carbs
32.3g
Fat
0.4g

Reference values apply to the named food form, not every preparation, variety or brand. © Food Standards Australia New Zealand. AFCD Release 3, food F007494. 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

Match references to dried plum flesh, specifying whole, pitted, sliced, or puréed form and whether sweeteners, preservatives, or coatings are present. Compare the dry fruit with rehydrated plum or cooked sauce. Include or exclude the pit consistently and distinguish the fruit from a prepared dessert.

Compare the right form: Match whole, pitted, sliced, or puréed dried plum, specifying skin, additives, coatings, dry or rehydrated state, and edible portion.

Diet considerations

Plum is a plant-derived fruit. Plain dried plum may fit plant-based patterns, but desserts, fillings, or sauces can contain dairy, egg, gelatin, cereal ingredients, or animal fats. Pitted snack fruit, rehydrated fruit, and sweetened preparations differ in portion and carbohydrate pattern.

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.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3, 2025 — Prune (dried plum) ↗. 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.

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