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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 55055" data-attributes="member: 1338">Hi Pete,As Sue has said, get yourself the Collins Little Gem Carb Counter book - available from all bookshops at anything between £3 and £5.  To give a quick answer to your question about dried and fresh fruit:one fresh apricot = 3.9g carb; one dried apricot (2 dried halves) = 4.25g100g fresh black or white grapes = 15.5g carbs; 100g raisins or sultanas = 69.2g carbs100g black or red currants = 6.6g; 100g dried currants = 68g100g blueberries = 10.1gone medium banana = 23.2g (bananas and dates are the two fruits with the highest amount of carbs)As you can see, with most dried fruit the drying process gets rid of the water content.  The sugar content stays the same, so an equivalent weight of dried fruit will nearly always have much more sugar than the fresh fruit.</blockquote>

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