Talk:Zante currant

message: Here in the UK, I can go to any supermarket's home-baking section and buy three generic types of dried grape: raisins, currants and sultanas. Clearly, these three are all distinct from a UK perspective. However, I've seen currants called sultanas, sultanas called raisins, raisins called currants and so on. A clear distinction needs to be made, and a systematic, unambigous listing of what people worldwide are referring to when they say "sultana", "currant" or "raisin" in reference to dried grapes. Some example sources:
* Kew Gardens (UK)
* Fruit reseller (New Zealand)
M Retik: Growing up in the UK also, I was not familiar with any gray area, from my experience there, raisins were always dried red/black grapes, sultanas were always dried white/green grapes and currants were always fresh or dried red or black currants. I can understand a mixup, since British cooking tends to use them together (fruit cake, mincemeat) but from my experience they are 3 fairly distinct ingredients.
* In my (UK) experience, "currants" are the dried fruit described in the present article; redcurrants and blackcurrants are the Ribes fruits.  Currants are used in baking (currant buns, Garibaldi biscuits, fruit shortcake biscuits, &c.), while black- and redcurrants are used as fruits in a similar way to raspberries (jam, Ribena, &c.).—Dah31 (talk) 00:58, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raisins, currants, sultanas. 

message: I'm the uploader of :File:Zante currants.jpg which is a scan of the front of a box of Sun-Maid brand Zante Currants.
Recently an edit was made to delete the image from the article. I'm fine with that. At the time I added this image to the article it was the only image. Today the article has two other images that are much more relevant.
As the "Zante currants" image is now an orphan it'll be deleted after Sunday, 9 December 2012. I'm fine with that. If someone wants to research and develop a section in the article on how the product is packaged/named I can re-upload the image. My scan was done in 2007. I also have a box in the cupboard and see that Sun-Maid's current design is slightly less commercial than the version they used in 2007. --Marc Kupper|talk 20:54, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sun-Maid image 

message: Substituted at 11:13, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I was unable to find reliable sources.
I have read if you buy fresh grapes, the black ones are healthier than green ones, but I don't know too much about raisins / currants.
 91.155.24.127 (talk) 10:31, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health benefits of Organic Zante Currants, compared to Organic California Raisins? 

message: Surely this article should note that Zante currants are not true currants? The article says that they are raisins  - ergo, they are not currants.Vorbee (talk) 17:34, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I too was baffled by the name "Zante currant"; I acknowledge that the product might be called "Zante currants" or "Currants (Zante)" in the USA, but I believe that it is only in the USA that it is marketed as such. Notwithstanding the renaming issue included above, use of the word "raisin" to commonly describe the products is likewise more of the USA than any other English-speaking country. That's reflected in the use of the term "Golden Raisin" to describe what is known in other countries as "Sultana". It might be yet another example of a greater weight being placed on US English usage to the detriment of others.Twistlethrop (talk) 00:51, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: As a lifelong AmE speaker, I have never heard them called "Zante". They're just "currants". (And we don't use the Ribes berries so there's no confusion.) 207.180.169.36 (talk) 04:22, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Zante currants versus true currants