Fruits are usually high in fiber and vitamin C, an essential nutrient for humans. Fruits also contain various phytochemicals required for proper long-term cellular health and disease prevention.
How many calories in fruit?
Fruits have little or no fat. Regular consumption of fresh fruit will reduce risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Fruit is a great health food and should be an essential part of your diet.
Fruits do contain calories and the table below has a list of fruits with corresponding calorie values. If you are trying to maintain or lose weight, the information below may help you in balancing you diet.
Calories in fruit : The List
The table below contains different fruit types with their respective calorie content.
| Fruit type | Quantitiy | Calories contained |
| Apples
Apricots Avocado Banana Blueberries Blackberries Breadfruit Cantaloupe (rockmelon) Carambola Star Fruit Cherries Coconut Coconut Water Crabapples Cranberries Cumquats Currants Custard Apple Dates Grapefruit Grapes Jackfruit Lemon Lime Lychees Mandarin Mango Nectarine Oranges Papaya Passionfruit Peaches Pears Pineapple Plums Pomegranate Raspberries Strawberries Tangerine Watermelon |
1 medium
1 large 1 medium 1 large 1 cup 1 cup 100 grams 1 cup cubed 1 medium 1 medium 100 grams 250 mls 1 cup sliced 1/2 cup 6 large 1/2 cup 1 medium 3 only 1 medium 1 large bunch 1 medium 1 medium 1 small 1 medium 1 medium 1 medium 1 medium 1 medium 1 small 1 medium 1 medium 1 medium 1 cup cubes 1 medium 1/2 medium 100 grams 1 large 1 small 1 thick slice |
80
20 255 100 50 50 100 40 55 5 270 50 90 20 50 35 200 160 20 310 320 25 10 10 35 100 30 80 80 15 40 75 55 35 75 25 10 35 70 |
Lowest Calorie Fruits
By looking at the data above, its difficult to figure out which fruits contain lowest amount of calories, since the quantities are different.
According to the information on most health related websites, ripe red tomatoes contain the lowest amount of calories (botanically speaking, tomato is a fruit). Next in line are strawberries, watermelon, Asian pears, papayas, peaches, raspberries and cantaloupes.
Bananas, mangoes and kiwi fruits contain high amount of calories. Avocados contain the most amount of calories with, close to 150 calories per 100 grams.
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