Currant events

My wife enjoys Zante currants in her breakfast dishes.  Nothing wrong with that.  But I did notice recently that the packaging for said dried fruitstuffs that the company claims that they're made with "Just Grapes and Sunshine".  Which is odd, because a dried grape is a raisin, not a currant, right?

Turns out it's confusing.  Of course.  A currant is usually a fruit of a shrub in the gooseberry family (genus Ribes) .  But the word has also historically been used for a small raisin that grows in the Levant (Israel, Jordan, Syria, etc.).  But that's a regular currant, usually called a red, white, or black currant.  Zante currants are a specific thing that is not a currant-- they are, in fact, the dried fruit of the Black Corinth seedless grape (Vitis vinifera).  In other words, a raisin.

So, to sum up, currants are gooseberries, unless they're Middle Eastern raisins, and Zante currants are always raisins, and can't be currants at all, since they're mostly grown in Greece (and to a lesser extent California).  Clear?