Cranberry tuna salad question

[Thanks4Food]

Recently sampled the cranberry tuna salad at Whole Foods and loved it. The guy behind the counter gave me the printout with the ingredients which are: Tuna, dried cranberries, dried onions, lemon juice, salt, sugar, canola mayonnaise.

But those cranberries didn't seem dried to me; that is, I would expect dried cranberries would be chewy like Craisins. These seemed more like fresh cranberries--of which I have a huge quantity in the freezer. I'd like to make it with the fresh/frozen cranberries I have, but do you think that will work? Will they be too tart?

[hotoynoodle]

fresh cranberries are impossibly tart and super hard. the salad must have reconstituted dried crans.

[critter101]

I think they are most likely dried cranberries - fresh would be too tart, and the color would bleed into the tuna salad. The dried berries probably become somewhat reconstituted in the mayo and lemon juice.