# Fruit and Carbohydrates
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-and-carbohydrates/228789
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 12, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-and-carbohydrates/228789 "2004-02-12T04:27:22Z")
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### Author:  [@koawala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koawala)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-and-carbohydrates/228789/1 "2004-02-12T04:27:22Z")
What is the breakdown of apples and bananas as to total carbohydrates and simple and complex sugars? What is a good site with info on fruits, either as a whole or different kinds of fruits?
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-and-carbohydrates/228789/2 "2004-02-12T05:04:38Z")
I’ve found [this website](http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl) to be very useful. It’s the USDA Nutrient database. I keep it bookmarked. It’s searchable by keyword, and very easy to use.
For instance, if you search for “apple” you get a long list of foods that include apples in some way. If you pick “apples, raw, with skin” and then pick the serving size (for example, “1 large (3-1/4” dia) (approx 2 per lb) = 212 grams"), you get a detailed nutritional breakdown. In this case, one large apple has the following carbohydrate-related information listed:
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> Carbohydrate, by difference g 29.277
> Fiber, total dietary g 5.088
> Sugars, total g 22.027
> Sucrose g 4.388
> Glucose (dextrose) g 5.152
> Fructose g 12.508
> Lactose g 0.000
> Maltose g 0.000
> Galactose g 0.000
> Starch g 0.106
The nutritional information is _very_ detailed lists of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, lipid (fat) breakdown, proportions of all the amino acids, and other things (like alcohol, caffeine, lycopene).