Eli5 if prunes are dehydrated plums and dehydration takes the water out of stuff how is prune juice made

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At least in France pruneau (prune in English) are made from a specific kind of plum. [This one](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunier_d%27ente)

Others plums can be dried but don’t have the exact same taste, and [look very different](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_domestica), bigger, smaller, red, yellow and usually round.

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I say at least in France, because France is the origin of the prune (this word means plum in French, probably someone got confused when importing the fruit from France), prune are named pruneau here. And usually USA has the habit to industrialise and change traditional recipes to make them cheaper, so it’s possible you get prune juice in USA made from whatever (even apple).