Nope. It’s healthy, say 4/5 experts. Call your grandma, because prunes—and other shriveled dried fruits—really are awesome, say four out of five of our experts. But there’s one very important fact to ...

Plum growers have won permission from the government to start calling prunes "dried plums," and packages with the new name are showing up in stores. Prune juice will still be prune juice, however.