White mulberry (Morus alba) is the honey-sweet, low-acid mulberry — a soft, elongated aggregate fruit that ripens pale white, pinkish or lavender rather than the inky black of its tart cousin, and tastes almost purely of sugar with only a whisper of acidity. Native to China and spread across Asia as the leaf that feeds the silkworm, it is beloved fresh in summer and, above all, dried: sun-dried white mulberries are a staple sweet across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia, eaten by the handful like a natural candy.