how sugary is your favourite fruit

Eating too much fruit can make you fat | Mail Online

We're meant to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day - ideally two of fruit and three of veg. But depending on your choice, you may be consuming more fructose - or fruit sugar - than you thought.

All values are for one piece of fruit, unless specified, and the figures in brackets show the equivalent amount of sugar.
Apricot

• Apricot 0.45g fructose (pinch of sugar)

• Clementine 0.5g (pinch)

• Plum 1.6g (large pinch)

• Fresh fig 2g (1/2tsp)

• Eight cherries 2.4g (1/2 tsp)

• 1 slice honeydew melon 3g (over 1/2 tsp)

• Kiwi fruit 3g (over 1/2 tsp)

• Orange 3.6g (over 1/2 tsp)

• Five strawberries 4g (1 tsp)

• Glass of orange juice 5g (1 tsp)
Strawberries

• Banana 5.5g (1 tsp)

• Small mango 6g (1 tsp)

• Grapefruit 7g (1 1/2 tsp)

• Handful raisins 8.7g (nearly 2tsp)

• Golden Delicious apple 11g (2tsp)

• Pear 11g (2tsp)
Grapes

• Granny Smith apple 8g (11/2 tsp)

• Handful dried apple 8g (1 1/2 tsp)

• Large bunch (500g) grapes, 39g (nearly 8 tsp)