Niveditha Kalyanaraman
January 2, 2023
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You may want to reduce sugar intake, but taming your sweet tooth can be incredibly difficult. Maybe you’ve already cut out processed sugars but didn’t realize how much sugar certain fruits contain. Or maybe you live with diabetes and want to know which fruits will have the least impact on your blood sugar. Here are 8 fruits that are low in sugar.
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High in vitamin C, lemons and their green counterparts are fairly sour fruits. This makes them the perfect flavourful, low sugar addition to a glass of water.
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With only a little over 5g — a bit more than a teaspoon — of sugar per cup and lots of fiber to help fill you up, raspberries are one of several amazing berries to make the list.
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Considering how sweet and delicious they are, strawberries are surprisingly low in sugar. One cup of raw strawberries has about 7g of sugar and more than 100% of the recommended daily vitamin C intake.
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These fuzzy green-fleshed fruits are technically considered a type of berry. Kiwis, or kiwi fruits, are rich in vitamin C and low in sugar.
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Another citrus fruit to make the list is grapefruit. While grapefruits certainly don’t taste as sweet as grapes, they make a great addition to breakfast, with only 10.6g of sugar in half a grapefruit.
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While they may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of fruit, avocados are indeed fruits and naturally low in sugar. Avocados also have a lot of healthy fats, which will help keep you feeling full.
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Cantaloupes owe their orange colour to high vitamin A content. A cup of this delicious melon contains less than 13g of sugar. This may be a bit more than other fruits have, but it’s still much less than you’d find in a can of soda.
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Watermelons are the iconic summer fruit. They may seem like a treat, but they’re low in sugar. A bonus of eating watermelon is it’s a great source of electrolytes, vitamin A, and vitamin C.
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