Fruit Sugar and Acid Content
This is a listing of various fruits and their sugar and acid contents, in % of fresh weight. This was pulled directly from the book "The Curious Cook" by Harold McGee, without permission from the author, and is presented for your use.
| Fruit | Sugar | Acid |
| Apple | 13 | 0.8 |
| Apricot | 9 | 1.7 |
| Avocado | 1 | 0.2 |
| Banana | 17 | 0.3 |
| Blackberry | 8 | 1.5 |
| Black Currant | 10 | 3.2 |
| Blueberry | 11 | 0.3 |
| Cantaloupe | 7 | 0.2 |
| Cherry | 14 | 0.5 |
| Cranberry | 4 | 3.0 |
| Fig | 15 | 0.4 |
| Gooseberry | 11 | 1.8 |
| Grape | 16 | 0.2 |
| Grapefruit | 6 | 2.0 |
| Guava | 7 | 0.4 |
| Honeydew | 10 | 0.2 |
| Kiwi | 14 | 3.0 |
| Lemon | 2 | 5.0 |
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| Fruit | Sugar | Acid |
| Lime | 1 | 5.0 |
| Litchi | 17 | 0.3 |
| Mango | 11 | 0.5 |
| Orange | 11 | 1.2 |
| Papaya | 8 | 0.1 |
| Passion Fruit | 11 | 3.0 |
| Peach | 9 | 0.4 |
| Pear | 10 | 0.1 |
| Persimmon | 14 | 0.2 |
| Pineapple | 13 | 1.1 |
| Plum | 11 | 0.6 |
| Pomegranate | 13 | 1.2 |
| Prickly Pear | 11 | 0.1 |
| Raspberry | 7 | 1.6 |
| Red Currant | 6 | 1.8 |
| Strawberry | 7 | 1.6 |
| Tomato | 3 | 0.5 |
| Watermelon | 9 | 0.2 |
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