How do you feel about dried fruit?

[PeppermintPie]

Are you a fan of fruitcake and similar? Or are you like me and detest it?

Hate it.

All of it.

Apart from dried mango

I like dried fruit, but they're high in sugar and calories.

I love it. Am sitting here with a handful of crystallised ginger. Strange question though, everyone has different tastes

Some dried fruit is ok, like pineapple, raisins, and apples. The rest I'm not crazy about. Fruitcake is cloying. Not a fan.

Anything sweet with raisins in I love! I love all dried fruit provided sugar hasn't been added.

I really like light fruit cake but the dark ones like Xmas cake can fuck off. Aside from the occasional light fruit cake or hot cross bun, I don’t eat dried fruit.

Wonderful, adds moisture and little bursts if flavour to otherwise bland cakes.

I would happily eat a bag but so much sugar! I'd choose 100g dried fruit over 100g haribo though.

I absolutely love it. A rich Christmas cake is heaven. Have made a lighter but still fruity simnel cake for tomorrow. I also adore Christmas pudding and mincemeat.
I do find that younger people in their 20s and 30s often don't like it as much. I wonder if they're just not used to it. In cafes years ago there would always be a fruit cake but you don't often see that these days, it's more cupcakes with tons of icing and decorations.

I hate it - all. Fresh, frozen, or even tinned fruit is nicer and better for you.

I love dried fruit! Largely due to the proportionally high sugar content, admittedly. My choices are very limited now because so many contain sulphites, and I developed an allergy after menopause 😡 Dates and figs aren't artificially preserved, though 😋

I love all dried fruit and all the things traditionally made with them. Dundee cake is very good and qualifies as a light fruit cake. The one I made a few weeks ago had a good amount of marmalade and whisky added and it was delicious.

I like all dried fruit except raspberries, bananas and figs. I spend stupid amounts of time in supermarkets looking for muesli without raspberries and/or bananas. (Sainsburys purple bag fruity muesli is safe).

I like those things, @Chemenger. You could waste years of your lifedevote yourself to picking them out of your muesli and post them to me. <helpful>

Love it. As does DS2.
DH and DS1 think dried fruit is the work of the devil.

DS2 and I eat allllll the hot cross buns and mince pies.

Have to get silly alternatives for the others like chocolate hot cross buns and salted caramel nonsense mince pies. Sigh.

I absolutely love all fruit cake, Christmas pudding etc. I'm always disappointed when a wedding cake turns out to be chocolate or something other than traditional fruit cake.

I don’t like fruitcake (too dense) but I do like hot cross buns and tea cakes and things. I also like to eat dried apricots with my breakfast.

I’m always paranoid tho when I have hot cross buns as the dog ate one once and spent three days on a drip. I keep them on top of the extractor fan!

I like dried fruit, but I don't like fruitcake!

I prefer it in savoury dishes like dried apricots in tagines or in stuffing with almonds and sausage, roasting chicken with dates and lemons or figs and olives. Spinach with raisins and pine nuts.

My mother used to make loads of fruitcakes at Christmas every year. I cannot even look at one, let alone eat some.

A light toasted teacake is a different beast though. Or a welsh cake. Nice.

I love fruitcake, raisins, sultanas, cranberries etc. M and S richly fruited hot cross buns are delicious... I have soft eating prunes chopped on my granola in the morning, and yoghurt coated dried cranberries are lovely.

It's vile. Christmas is rubbish for me because all sweet treats have dried fruit in apart from chocolate log. And hot cross buns bleurgh! However I went to Tesco today and found cheese and strawberry (separate types not cheese and strawberry together 😂) hot cross buns. Funnily enough I don't mind eating currants out of the bag but can't stand them in a cake.

Medjool dates are a gift from heaven..

Oxalate bomb but a gift from heaven

Absolutely cannot stand traditional dried fruit, currants/sultanas/raisins are all gritty and horrible.

I quite like most dried fruit, except dried pineapple and papaya, which I find too cloying. I really like a light fruitcake, but not the rich, dark ones.

You can get apple mango banana and apricots (probably lots more but these are my faves) without sulphites from various online stores, my go to is buywholefoodsonline they are fab!! Not super cheap but great as a treat and free delivery over £20 (I get my seeds from them too which bumps it up) 😋

The absolute key thing is to soak any dried fruit overnight before you bake with it, or else it sucks all the moisture from your cake mix like wrinkly little -dead flies fruit vampires.

I've just made a Simnel cake with slightly out of date dried fruit from the village shop. 12 hours soaking in cold tea has (appropriately) resurrected it into juicy plumpness.