On the East Coast, winter gardens and growing spaces are asleep, locked in cold, and bleakly grey, with bare-branched brown ...

but this may change as we rediscover the health benefits of this much-maligned dried fruit. They’re affordable, packed with fibre (yes, they keep you regular) and only 20 calories per dried prune.

One study found that eating five to six prunes per day preserved bone mineral density in post-menopausal women - Getty ...

When you eat a whole fruit, you’re also getting other nutritional benefits — think gut-friendly fiber, hydrating water and other micronutrients — that you won’t find in powders ...