Almost bringing up some dried fruit (6)
I believe the answer is:
raisin
'some dried fruit' is the definition.
(raisin is a kind of dried fruit)
'almost bringing up' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'bringing up' becomes 'raising' (raising is a kind of bringing up).
'raising' with its final letter taken off is 'RAISIN'.
(Other definitions for raisin that I've seen before include "Dried red grape" , "A dried grape, nice in cake" , "Fruit for the Christmas cake" , "fruit product" , "sultana, say" .)