What is the difference between currants and berries?

Answer 1

The French wear berets on their heads, the English have currants between their ears!
Hope this helps??

Answer 2

The word currant is used for 2 kinds of fruits: a small raisin, which is a dried small grape, and a type of berry that is closely related to gooseberries. So, some currants are berries, and some are raisins. But the 2 kinds of currants are entirely unrelated and very different kinds of foods.

If you're trying to deal with a recipe that calls for currants and you don't know whether it means the raisin type or the berry type, you kind of have to guess based on the other ingredients and preparation instructions. "Fresh currants" always means the berry type (frozen berry currants can be often be substituted for fresh). If a recipe calls for red currants, that is the red version of the berry type. If a recipe calls for dried currants, that is the raisin type (and raisins can generally be substituted in any recipe that calls for the raisin type of currant if raisin currants are not available). If the recipe calls for black currants, then you're still stuck guessing whether you should use fresh black berry currants or dried black raisin currants. Currant juice that you see in the store is always made with the berry type of currants.

I'm not sure what idiot decided to call the raisin type of currants "currants" instead of coming up with a new name for them, but having one word for two different things sure makes life confusing.

Answer 3

cur·rant
noun

Definition:

1. small dried grape: a small dark dried seedless grape. Use: in cooking. Native to: Mediterranean.

2. small juicy fruit: a small round juicy fruit of a small deciduous bush, especially a red currant or black currant

3. fruit-bearing bush: the bush, cultivated in temperate regions, that produces currants, especially red currants or black currants. Genus Ribes.


ber·ry
noun

Definition:

1. small juicy fruit: a small juicy or fleshy fruit. Berries are usually round and may be edible or inedible.

2. botany fleshy seed-containing fruit: a soft fleshy fruit that contains many seeds. Tomatoes, grapes, and bananas are berries. ( technical )

3. botany kernel: a seed or kernel, e.g. a coffee bean



Peace.

Answer 4

apperntly For reasons that aren't entirely clear, currants of the genus Ribes got their name by transference from the other fruit known as currants -- that is, the dried, tiny Greek grapes that are still popularly used in cooking. The word, "currant," is a corruption of Corinth, where those grapes originally grew.

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/season/summer/early/fruit.shtml

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/currants.html

dont know if this helps

Answer 5

Age...currants are dried berries.

Answer 6

Only snobs eat currants. Or British folk.

Answer 7

Currants are black dried grapes,Berries are grown on shrubs,Logan berries,blackberries,goosberries,winberries,etc. and then there are strawberries that are grown on plants.

Answer 8

currants are dried grapes and berries are strawberry's, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, blueberries etc

Answer 9

Dessication

Answer 10

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