Now for low carb fruits. Here you will find free charts and counters for the carbohydrates in fruits and vegetables.
Here you can also have the calorie count for fruits and vegetables if you prefer to count both carbohydrates and calories. Use these as daily guides.
The free carbohydrate counter and chart can be used for Syndrome X, weight loss, or weight maintenance. You can also use it with our free diets.
Fruits are part of a healthy diet. However, some fruits contain significantly more carbs than others do.
In the final column of each segment is the approximate amount of carbs contained in each fruit or portion. The food counts in the list are for fresh fruit, not sweetened, canned, or dried, unless otherwise stated.
Per single fruit or the portion stated
Calories per fruit or the portion stated
Carbohydrates per fruit or the portion stated
Apple (with the peel)
81
21
Apricot
17
4
Avocado
306
12
Banana
105
27
Blackberries (½ cup)
37
9
Blackcurrants (½ cup)
36
9
Blueberries fresh (½ cup)
41
10
Cherries (½ cup)
52
12
Cranberries fresh raw (½ cup),
23
6
Currants Red fresh (½ cup)
31
8
Dates dried/sugar (½ cup)
280
62
Date 1 fresh/unsweetened
7
2
Fig (medium)
37
10
Gooseberries fresh (½ cup)
34
8
Grapes (10 medium seedless)
36
9
Grapefruit (1 medium half)
46
12
Guava (½ cup)
42
10
Kiwi (medium)
46
11
Lemon (with peel)
22
12
Lime (with peel)
18
10
Lychees 1 oz.
19
5
Mango fresh
135
35
Melon Canteloupe (1 half)
94
22
Melon Honeydew (1 tenth)
46
12
Nectarine (medium)
67
16
Olives green (pitted) 1 oz.
33
0.4
Olives black (pitted) 1 oz.
96
2.5
Orange
65
16
Papaya (½ cup cubed)
27
7
Passion Fruit (medium)
18
4
Paw Paw
34
7
Peach
37
10
Pear (medium)
98
25
Pineapple fresh (½ cup cubed)
39
10
Plum
36
9
Prune (1 dried & pitted)
20
5
Raisins (dried ½ cup)
110
29
Raspberry (½ cup)
31
7
Rhubarb (½ cup cubed)
14
3
Satsuma
37
9
Strawberries (½ cup)
23
5
Tangerine
37
9
Tomato (large)
26
6
Tomato Cherry
3
1
If you are following a low carbohydrate diet and want to include fruits, choose the best low carb fruits. Additionally, if you want to maximize the health benefits and help our planet, eat organically grown low carb fruits whenever possible.
A low carb diet really does work. It works for health. It works for fat loss.
Web pages related to low carb fruits
If you wish to read about our free low carb diets, or the low carb foods that speed up metabolism, or the low carb fat burning foods, or if you wish to view the low carbohydrate vegetables chart, see the following pages of our website:
If you would like suggestions for in-depth reading in relation to food and health, see our "best self-help books" page listed on the menu/navigation buttons.
Meanwhile, here are our initial suggestions:
Cordain, The Paleo Diet
Eades and Eades, Protein Power
Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
You should be able to borrow these books from your local library if you do not want to buy them.
This completes the low carb fruit page.
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