Top 15 Fruits Highest in Sugar

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Top 15 Fruits Highest in Sugar

Fruit is an excellent source of nutrients, providing water, fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants. Fruit contains natural sugars, however, these 'intrinsic' sugars naturally occurring in fruits, vegetables, and milk are not the ones we need to be concerned about.

Although we don’t need to reduce our consumption of sugars occurring naturally in fruits, they do still count toward our daily total sugar intakes. People needing to control their blood sugar intakes (such as diabetics) may also find it useful to know which fruits are higher in sugar.

Fruits high in natural sugar include litchis, passion-fruit, pomegranates, mangoes, cherries, oranges, kiwifruit, grapes, guavas, and bananas. In the listing, both the grams of sugar and teaspoons of sugar per serving of each fruit is given. A packed teaspoon of granulated sugar is equal to 4 grams.

Below is a list of fresh fruits high in sugar. For more see the extended lists of less common fruits high in sugar, dried fruits high in sugar, and the unfiltered list of over 100 fruits high in sugar.

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Less Common Fruits High in Sugar

FoodServingSugar
1. Tamarind 1 cup pulp 47g
(11.8 tsp)
2. Fried Plantains 1 cup 37g
(9.3 tsp)
3. Mamey Sapote 1 cup chopped 35g
(8.8 tsp)
4. Jackfruit 1 cup 31g
(7.8 tsp)
5. Soursop 1 cup 30g
(7.5 tsp)
6. Breadfruit 1 cup 24g
(6 tsp)
7. Persimmon per fruit 21g
(5.3 tsp)
8. Cherimoya 1 cup 21g
(5.3 tsp)

Sugar in Dried Fruits

FoodServingSugar
1. Raisins 1 cup 108g
(27 tsp)
2. Zante Currants 1 cup 90g
(22.5 tsp)
3. Dried Peaches 1 cup 67g
(16.8 tsp)
4. Dried Apples 1 cup 49g
(12.3 tsp)
5. Dried Bananas 1 cup 47g
(11.8 tsp)
6. Dried Apricots per cup 15g
(3.8 tsp)
7. Dates (Deglet Noor) per 3 dates 13g
(3.3 tsp)

About the Data

Data for the curated food lists comes from the USDA Food Data Central Repository.

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Data Sources and References

  1. U.S. Agricultural Research Service Food Data Central
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