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16 Nov 2010 5:24 AM

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Anonymous

I recently bought a 400g tin of "Weight Watchers peach slices in water - No Added Sugar", with [you guessed it] saccharin & cyclamen sweeteners :-( The sugar content was listed as 2.7%. I can't find the fructose content of peaches in the QUIT book, but my question is, if I drain off the juice in the can, is it reasonable to think that the remaining fruit has much the same sugar content as it would if raw [neglecting the absence of skin]?

I have another 410g can of "Goulburn Valley Apricot halves in juice" [my wife uses them in cooking] with sugars listed as 11.8%. Same question - is it kosher without the juice?

19 Nov 2010 8:51 PM

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Anonymous

Here are the figures on raw peaches:

Sucrose 5.1% and fructose 1.3% (so total fructose is 3.85%) and fibre is 2.1% - that makes peaches around the same as strawberries in terms of fructose and fibre content (not to bad in other words).

Apricots are 4.6% sucrose and 3% fructose (so total fructose of 5.3%) and fibre is 1.9% and should probably be avoided as a general rule anyway

If the 'syrup' is just water then tinned is just as good as fresh and the numbers on the tins seem about right (even a little low in the case of the peach) for fresh fruit.

Cheers

David.