CALORIES FRUIT - IN SHAPE

Calorie fruit: which are the least caloric fruits?

Fruit is a good source of vitamins, as it is usually eaten raw and therefore important vitamins are not lost during the cooking process. According to nutritionists and doctors, we should eat three portions of vegetables and two portions of fruit a day: in this way we will be well supplied with vitamins, minerals and secondary plant substances, essential to help our body stay healthy.

But beware, not all fruits are the same; we have already understood that vegetables contain fewer calories than fruit, for this reason the consumption of the latter is limited to only two portions a day; as anticipated, however, it is also good to choose the right fruits so as not to exceed in terms of sugars and calories and especially opt for those with a lower calorie content.

Speaking of sugars, watch out for apparently very healthy foods that contain it in large quantities.

To help you choose lower calorie fruits, especially if you are following a low calorie diet, below you can find a series of tables that indicate the calories of fruit.

1. Stone fruit

It is the technical term adopted in agronomy to mean a set of fruit trees that belong to the Rosaceae family and that produce a drupe as fruit.
This category includes peach, plum, apricot, cherry and almond trees.

So here are the calories of these specific fruits, calculated on 100 grams of product.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Apricot: 43 kcal Sour Cherry: 53 kcal Sweet cherry: 62 kcal Mango: 57 kcal Mirabelle plums: 63 kcal Nectarine: 56 kcal Fishing: 41 kcal Prune: 48 kcal

2. Pome fruits

This term indicates in agronomy a group of fruit plants that produce a fruit as a fruit. The following species belong to the Pomacee: apple, pear, quince, common medlar and Japanese medlar.

Pome fruits such as apples and pears are available all year round.
A look at the fruit calorie graph shows that apples in particular have a low calorie content: per 100 g they have 54 kcal; an average apple weighing 125 g has 68 kcal.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Apple: 54 kcal Pear: 55 kcal Quince: 38 kcal

3. Berries

Berries are by far the least caloric fruits; in particular, strawberries are excellent for those who want to lose weight.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Blue raspberry: 44 kcal Cranberry: 35 kcal Strawberry: 32 kcal Blueberry: 36 kcal Raspberry: 34 kcal Red currant: 33 kcal Blackcurrant: 39 kcal Gooseberry: 37 kcal

Curiosity: from a botanical point of view, the avocado is actually one of the berry fruits, thus resulting in the fresh fruit with the most calories with about 221 kcal per 100 g.

4. Exotic fruit and citrus

Do bananas make you fat? Of course not, but the calorie graph shows that at 88 kcal per 100g, bananas are a high calorie fruit. Most other exotic fruits are lower in calories. The big exception: fresh dates.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Pineapple: 55 kcal Banana: 88 kcal Clementine /
Tangerine: 46 kcal FIG: 61 kcal Pomegranate: 74 kcal Grapefruit: 38 kcal Guava: 34 kcal Melon: 54 kcal Kiwi: 51 kcal Papaya: 32 kcal Watermelon: 37 kcal Grape: 70 kcal Lemon: 35 kcal

5. Dried fruit

In the production of dried fruit, water is completely eliminated from the fruit. What remains is obviously a large amount of sugar. It is therefore not surprising that dried fruit tops the calorie table when it comes to high calorie fruit. .

Per 100 g, dried fruit contains about 250 kcal. However, it is allowed from time to time, because dried fruit contains important minerals such as potassium.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Apple 248 kcal Apricot: 239 kcal Banana: 289 kcal Cranberry: 312 kcal Date: 276 kcal FIG: 250 kcal Prune: 218 kcal Raisins: 290 kcal

The 10 fruits with the least calories

Here is a very welcome mixed list, which brings together the fruits with the lowest caloric content. In other words, these are the fruits on which you should focus more and to consume more often because, in addition to being good and tasty, they allow us not to exceed in terms of sugars and calories.

In fact, low-calorie fruits usually contain less sugar, i.e. fewer carbohydrates, but are rich in water and fiber, therefore they are perfect foods for our physical well-being.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Strawberries: 32 kcal Papaya: 32 kcal Red currant: 33 kcal Raspberries: 34 kcal Guava: 34 kcal Lemon: 35 kcal Blueberries: 36 kcal Watermelon: 38 kcal Grapefruit: 38 kcal Quince: 38 kcal

The 10 most calorie-rich fresh fruits

We now come to the list, certainly less popular, of the fruits with the most calories; from this obviously dried fruit is excluded which, as we have said, deserves a separate list for its important caloric quantities and therefore cannot be remotely compared to fresh fruit.

However, let us remember that we are talking about a healthy food, so these indications only serve us not to exceed the daily portions, especially with the types of fruits you see in the list below, not to ban them completely; indeed, this list is full of delicious fruits and it is good to introduce them in our diet with moderation and awareness, without exaggerating in order not to exceed the daily caloric intake.

Fruit Calories per 100 g Banana: 88 kcal Pomegranate: 74 kcal Grape: 70 kcal Cherries: 62 kcal Figs: 61 kcal Mango: 57 kcal Nectarines: 56 kcal Pineapple: 55 kcal Pear: 55 kcal Apple: 54 kcal