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Fruit Carb Charts - Atkins

While fruits can be a special, sweet treat, you should be cautious about gorging on fruits while on a low carb diet. Those apple and orange treats are full of sugar!

Portions are 1/4 cup unless otherwise indicated. Carbs shown are effective carbs, the fiber was already removed.

apple (1) - 17.3g
applesauce - 6.2g
apricot (1) - 3.1g
avocado (1) - 0.5g
banana (1) - 21.2g
cantaloupe - 3.0g
cherries - 4.2g
coconut - 1.3g
cranberries - 2.0g
grapes - 6.7g
honeydew - 3.6g
kiwi - 6.5g
lemon (1) - 3.8g
mango - 6.3g
orange (1) - 12.9g
peach (1) - 8.9g
pear (1) - 21.1g
pineapple - 4.3g
plantain - 12g
plum (1) - 7.6g
raisins - 31.0g
watermelon - 2.6g

Note that fruit juices are usually chock full of sugars. Read the labels carefully, but it's much better to drink water than to drink any fruit juices.

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