5 a day fruits and veggies. What about dried apricots?

So dried apricots, on the package it says there are 5 dried apricots in a serving and that has 90 calories. Is this one serving of fruit that I can count toward the 5 per day? Or is each apricot a serving toward 5 a day?

5 a day fruits and veggies. What about dried apricots?
Sure, you can count the dried fruit. For sure. Dried fruit is a concentrated form of the nutrients in the whole fruit. Very portable, too.



The whole serving is composed of five apricots. A single apricot is 1/5 of a serving.



So five servings of apricots per day would be 25 apricots in a day. Probably not a good idea to get so much Vitamin A to the exclusion of other nutritions. A balance is important.



Also, drink plenty of water with dried fruit, so you don't get constipated.



Hope that helps.



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Reply:The serving depends on the item.





For apricots it would be the 5.
Reply:This serving of fruit means that you should eat 5 per day not 5 apricots a serving toward 5 days... :]