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Applesauce is a sweet purée made from cooked apples, often seasoned with cinnamon or other spices.

It serves as a side dish, snack, or baking ingredient where it can substitute for oil or eggs.

In informal use, applesauce is a mild exclamation expressing disbelief or dismissal, similar to nonsense or baloney: Applesauce! That story can't be true.

This slang usage peaked in early 20th-century American English but still appears occasionally.

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texture/form

apple sauceapple slices

Sectioned pomaceous fruit

baked apple · apple crisp

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G