Lowest Sugar Fruits
This list surprised me a bit. I have always heard from body builders that cantaloupe was the lowest sugar fruit.
You can read the whole article here:
http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=how_much_sugar_is_in_your_favorite_fruit
Want to know how some of your other favorite fruits stack up? Check out the chart below!
Fruit (100 grams of edible portion) | Sugar Grams (4 grams = ~1 tsp) |
Raspberries | 4.42 |
Strawberries | 4.66 |
Blackberries | 4.88 |
Papaya | 5.90 |
Watermelon | 6.20 |
Grapefruit (pink) | 6.89 |
Cantaloupe melon | 7.86 |
Honeydew melon | 8.12 |
Peaches | 8.39 |
Kiwi | 8.99 |
Apricots | 9.24 |
Pineapple | 9.26 |
Oranges | 9.35 |
Pears | 9.80 |
Plums | 9.92 |
Blueberries | 9.96 |
Apples | 10.39 |
Bananas | 12.23 |
Cherries (sweet) | 12.82 |
Mango | 14.80 |
Grapes | 16.25 |
Figs | 16.26 |
Pomegranate | 16.57 |
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ''USDA Database for the Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods''
Yep -- the only fruits I'll eat right now are raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, and even then, not very many because I'm finding that just about every carb makes me want more -- even when I make green beans or other "good" carbs.
Since I'm not about to give up leafy greens and a few berries now and then (even for a die-hard low carber, that just doesn't make good nutritional sense to me!), I just eat then and deal with the the small cravings that get triggered!