The dummies guide to healthy fruit eating

Whether you’re on a diet or trying to manage diabetes, knowing the sugar content of fruits can be helpful. If you have trouble memorising fruits individually, try to remember these categories instead.

According to Information About Diabetes, you can typically sort fruits into one of five categories to estimate their sugar content. While there’s some variance between individual fruits — and if you’re dealing with something more serious like diabetes, you should always check to be sure — these categories can help you ballpark it. Of course, this list isn’t comprehensive and there can be exceptions (for example, some companies will add sugar to processed fruit for taste), so always be thorough when it counts. But if you’re out at a restaurant and just trying to avoid too-sugary food, breaking it down this way can help you. Here it is, in order from lowest to highest sugar content:
Berries: Raspberries, blackberries, and cranberries.

Spring-Summer Fruit: Peaches, nectarines, melons, and apricots.

Fall-Winter Fruit: Apples, citrus fruits, plums, an pears.

Tropical Fruit: Pineapple, pomegranates, and mangoes.

Dried Fruit: Dates, raisins, and prunes.