{"id":116549,"date":"2025-08-03T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116549\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:20:22","slug":"these-are-the-healthiest-fruits-you-should-be-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116549\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are the Healthiest Fruits You Should Be Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asking which fruit is healthiest is sort of like asking which kind of exercise<\/a> is best for your muscles<\/a>: they’re all good for you.
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But, we get it, a person can only eat so much fruit in a day, so you might be looking to prioritise your fruit intake based on how healthy certain fruits are for you.<\/p>\n

‘Depending on what characteristics a person is looking for in a fruit \u2013 whether it is a higher fibre content, more vitamins<\/a> like vitamin C, or more minerals like potassium \u2013 one fruit might be nutritionally superior to another,’ says Lisa McAnulty<\/a>, Ph.D., a professor of nutrition<\/a> at Appalachian State University. <\/p>\n

But even this idea of nutritional ‘superiority’ is kind of silly. All fruit is good for you. All fruit is rich in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. All fruit is loaded with disease-fighting antioxidants and a good source of stomach-filling fibre<\/a>. All fruit is superior.<\/p>\n

If anyone has ever told you not to eat fruit for any reason (fruit is high in sugar<\/a>, fruit is high in calories<\/a>, blah blah blah), know that they are flat-out, totally and completely wrong.<\/p>\n

No legitimate registered dietitian we have ever talked to at Men’s Health has ever, under any circumstance, recommended that you stop eating fruit. This has not stopped so-called ‘experts’ from telling their Instagram followers that fruit will make you gain weight, drive up your risk of diabetes or default on your mortgage.<\/p>\n

The bigger truth is this: you’re probably not eating enough fruit. In fact, according to the latest National Nutrition Survey<\/a>, which includes data from 2019-2023, less than one in five adults (17%) met the 5-a-day recommendation.<\/p>\n

Which means that any fruit you may eat \u2013 apple, orange, banana<\/a>, blueberries, pears, mango, dragonfruit, whatever \u2013 you should probably just eat more of them.<\/p>\n

What Are the Healthiest Fruits to Eat?<\/p>\n

After crunching some numbers using the USDA Nutrient Database<\/a>, we determined that these are the healthiest fresh fruit sources for different vitamins and nutrients. They appear as different quantities because we’ve converted the one-cup measurements to the UK-standard gram. So, while they technically weigh different amounts, the numbers are still based on one cup of each fruit. <\/p>\n

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