Dried fruit is a typical snack and recipe ingredient used for centuries.
The food has beneficial qualities such as its sweet taste and long shelf life.
The bulk of the
are table dates and raisins.
of about six billion and 2.5 million U.S. dollars, respectively.
The United States and Turkey produce the most dried fruit and claim about 22 percent of the worldwide
market for
. The U.S., however, imports more dried fruits than it exports.
Leading producers
Dried fruit has a tradition of use in Mesopotamian cuisine since 4000 BC.
The Mesopotamian region includes parts of Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey, many of which are still top producers and exporters of dried fruit today.
Turkey
exports the most
significant amount of raisins, while Saudi Arabia is the leading
leading
exporter of dates worldwide. Turkey is also the largest exporter when it comes
to
dried apricots,
with an export value amounting to a total of over 404 million U.S. dollars worldwide in 2024.
Consumer market
Out of the dried fruits available, global consumers ate
raisins and table dates
more than any other fruit. A large market is the United States, where
consumption of dried fruits amounted to about 2.2 pounds per person in 2023/24. Dried fruits sometimes get a poor reputation
due to the fact that some have a high concentration of natural sugars. This reputation could have influenced the frequency of
eating dried fruits, as many of the
diets
followed by customers in the U.S. restrict the daily amount of sugar or calories consumed. At the same time,
many types of dried fruits offer health benefits by retaining the fiber, many of the vitamins, and minerals of the whole fruit.
Asia and Europe are the
leading consumers of dried fruit, responsible for about 48 and 19 percent of global dried fruit consumption respectively.
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