Sugar in Prickly Pear (Northern Plains reference)

How much sugar is in prickly pear (northern plains reference)?

The selected SR Legacy reference, “Prickly pears, raw (Northern Plains Indians)”, reports 1.02g of total sugar per 100g of edible food. The headline rounds this to one decimal place.

For the source portion labelled “1 pad peeled” (19g), that works out to 0.2g of sugar. This serving amount is calculated from the reported per-100g value.

The same record reports 10.17g of total carbohydrate and 5.3g of fiber per 100g. Total sugar is a separate reported measure; carbohydrate and sugar are not interchangeable numbers.

THE SUGAR BREAKDOWN

What is in the reference?

Reported amounts per 100g of the food described above.

Total sugar

1.02 g

Fructose

0.21 g

Glucose

0.44 g

Sucrose

0.38 g

Of fructose, glucose and sucrose, glucose is the largest reported component in this record, at 0.44g per 100g.

Individual sugars are reported separately. Missing components are not estimated, and their sum may differ from the reported total.

MAKE IT YOUR PORTION

How much are you eating?

Serving reference

Portion weights come from this source record. Sugar per serving is calculated, rather than a separate measurement.

Compare prickly pear (northern plains reference) with other fruits

These are equal-weight comparisons of the named source foods. The table uses 100g of edible food for each entry.

Which reference does this page use?

SR Legacy describes the selected food as “Prickly pears, raw (Northern Plains Indians)”. We use this legacy food record as the selected reference, keeping its original food description and reported values.

Open the linked source record for its context. A different variety, ripeness or preparation may have a different composition; we do not average unrelated records into a new value.