SUGAR IN FRUIT

grams of natural sugar per 100 g of fresh fruit — and how much water sits beside it

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: food · everyone · comparison · kitchen

Total sugars and water for the raw edible part, from USDA FoodData Central. This is the fruit’s own sugar, not added sugar: it arrives together with the water, the fibre and everything else.

SUGAR IS NOT ONE SUBSTANCE, AND THE TONGUE KNOWS IT

Fruit carries three different sugars, and they are sweet to different degrees: fructose is roughly 1.2–1.8 times sweeter than table sugar, while glucose is about one and a half times less sweet.

More than half of watermelon’s sugar is fructose. Its six grams therefore do not weigh six on the tongue, and a banana with twelve does not taste twice as sweet: the number counts mass, not flavour.

And the strawberry, the least sugary thing on this sheet, still tastes sweet. Twenty volatile compounds in it were found to raise perceived sweetness without adding a gram of sugar: part of what you taste, you smell.

On the sheet

Total sugars and water for the raw edible part, from USDA FoodData Central. This is the fruit’s own sugar, not added sugar: it arrives together with the water, the fibre and everything else.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 5 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

SUGAR IN FRUIT

SUGAR IS NOT ONE SUBSTANCE, AND THE TONGUE KNOWS IT

On the sheet

Printing

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