Low Calorie Foods
Low Calorie Fruits: Which Fruits Are Lowest in Calories?
Low calorie fruits ranked from lowest to highest. Learn which fruits have the fewest calories per serving and how to fit them into your daily target.
Low calorie fruits are a powerful tool for calorie tracking because they provide volume, sweetness, and micronutrients without a big calorie cost.
Berries are the lowest calorie fruits per cup. Strawberries have about 50 calories per cup. Blueberries have around 85 calories per cup. Raspberries are roughly 65 calories per cup.
Watermelon is one of the most volume efficient fruits you can eat. A two cup serving of diced watermelon has about 80 calories.
Cantaloupe is similar to watermelon in calorie density. A cup of diced cantaloupe has about 55 calories.
Peaches and nectarines are around 60 calories for a medium sized fruit.
Plums are roughly 75 calories per fruit depending on size.
Grapefruit is about 90 calories for half a medium fruit.
Oranges come in at about 70 calories for a medium navel orange.
Apples are roughly 95 calories for a medium apple.
Pears are similar to apples at about 100 calories for a medium fruit.
Bananas are often avoided in low calorie eating, but a medium banana is only about 105 calories.
Grapes are around 100 calories per cup.
Mangoes are about 100 calories per cup of diced fruit.
Cherries are roughly 90 calories per cup without pits.
Dried fruits are the one category to watch carefully. A small handful of raisins has about 130 calories.
The best approach is to make berries and melons your everyday choices, use apples and pears as filling snacks, and treat higher sugar fruits as smaller servings.