Apricot
Rating: depends on portion · Trigger subgroup: Sorbitol
At a 16 g portion: green light
Lights per subgroup
- Fructans 0 g · green light
- GOS 0 g · green light
- Excess fructose 0 g · green light
- Lactose 0 g · green light
- Sorbitol 0.19 g · green light
- Mannitol 0 g · green light
fructans and GOS are evaluated together (oligosaccharide sum) · sorbitol and mannitol are evaluated individually and combined — the worse result wins
Green boundaries come from the scientific sources; the amber (1–2× the cutoff) and red (>2×) bands are an app estimate.
Sources and confidence
- Method:
- subgroup grams from peer-reviewed literature
- Rating confidence:
- medium (confidence below high — lights are drawn hatched)
- Assessed:
- 2026-08-23
- Portion thresholds:
- varney-2017.v1
Sources
- doi:10.1111/jhn.12144 — Yao 2014 Table 1, transcribed via open Semantic Scholar table reproduction: apricot sorbitol 1.2 g/100g present-study HPLC, USDA column 0.8; Souci-Fachmann-Kraut 0.82; cultivar spread up to ~2.65 per doi:10.3390/ijms242316992 — 1.2 = measured point, worse than the USDA/SFK pair
- USDA FDC 171697 — glucose 2.37 > fructose 0.94 — no fructose excess ⇒ sorbitol-dominant
- mannitol 0.0 and fructans 0.0 = ESTIMATEs (confidence low) — pending dietitian review; Muir 2009 fruit panel found mannitol in only 2 fruits (peach, watermelon) and fruit fructans peaked at melons 0.21–0.46 (Muir 2007); estimates do not touch the sorbitol-driven light
- doi:10.1111/jgh.13687 — published sorbitol re-challenge food: 1 small apricot
Hollow circle = no data (unknown). Hatched = medium/low confidence. Solid = high confidence.
Test your tolerance in the protocol
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