This Fruit Contains as Much Sugar as Two Donuts

You want to lose a little weight before Christmas – and replace the unhealthy donut with fruit? Not a particularly good idea, because some fruits are real sugar bombs!

In the cold season we should reach into the fruit basket more often to put viruses to flight and stay healthy. Nevertheless, we should not forget that fruit also contains sugar – and some varieties have a lot of sugar. We’ll tell you which fruits you can eat without hesitation and which ones you should not eat:

This fruit is a real sugar bomb!

The mango is the cream cake among the fruits! It contains twelve grams of sugar per 100 grams. A single fruit weighing about 200 grams therefore contains as much sugar as two glazed donuts. No wonder the exotic tropical fruit tastes so delicious. Of course, mangos are still healthier than the greasy doughnuts, after all they contain a lot of carotene, vitamin A, C, B and E. As a side dish in an Asian-influenced meal or as an ingredient in muesli, you can eat the aromatic fruit without hesitation. Just be careful not to eat mangoes in bulk.

The following fruits contain little fructose

If you don’t want to do without your rich fruit salad, it is better to go for fruit with little fruit sugar. The best types of fruit in terms of fructose content are berries. Whether strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries or blackberries: they contain between four and seven grams of sugar per 100 grams. Avocados also count as fruits: they contain only one gram of sugar per 100 grams, but they make up for this with their high content of unsaturated fatty acids.

By the way: The German Society for Nutrition recommends two handfuls of fruit and three handfuls of vegetables per day. That is 40 to 50 grams of fructose per day. It is generally not recommended to consume more than 25 grams of fructose at once – this can lead to permanent gastrointestinal problems.