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Zante currants, Corinth raisins, Corinthian raisins or outside the United States simply currants, are raisins of the small, sweet, seedless grape cultivar Black Corinth (Vitis vinifera). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The name comes from the Anglo-French phrase "raisins de Corinthe" (grapes of Corinth ) [ 5 ] and the Ionian island of Zakynthos (Zante), which was ...
In addition, currant production and trade made Zakynthos and Cephalonia almost entirely reliant on one agricultural product making the islands vulnerable to changes in currant prices. Today, currants are still grown in Zakynthos and were recently recognized as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product by European Union.
In 1996, 19 cheeses from Greece were awarded Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status defining their areas of origin and methods of production. Feta received the same status in 2002 and Xygalo Sitias in 2008. The designated cheeses are made from fresh milk by traditional methods. They contain predominantly sheep or sheep and goat's milk. [1]
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Seedless varieties include sultanas (the common American type is known as Thompson Seedless in the United States), Zante currants (black Corinthian raisins, Vitis vinifera L. var. Apyrena), [3] and Flame grapes. Raisins are traditionally sun-dried but may also be artificially dehydrated.
Zante currant (US), dried black Corinth grapes; smaller than raisins (just "currant" in other English-speaking countries) Currant tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium, small tomato species; Currant-tree, Amelanchier canadensis, also called Juneberry or shadblow serviceberry; Currant bush, Carissa spinarum also called conkerberry or bush plum
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Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Greek: Ζάκυνθος, romanized: Zákynthos [ˈzacinθos] ⓘ; Italian: Zacinto [dzaˈtʃinto]) or Zante (/ ˈ z æ n t i /, US also / ˈ z ɑː n t eɪ /, [3] [4] Italian:; Greek: Τζάντε, romanized: Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.