Why dried fruits higher in sugar content

Sometimes sugar is added to dried fruits like cranberries because they are so tart, very few people would eat them. Dried fruits may have more calories and sugar because they are missing the water that would take up less space. For example, 1 cup of grapes has about 60 calories, but a cup of raisins has over 400 calories. This doesn't happen because the raisin company added sugar, it happened because without the water, the raisins take up a lot less space. You can fit more raisins into one cup. That doesn't mean each raisin has more calories and fruit-sugar than grapes, in fact each grape has the same number of calories and the same amount of natural fruit-sugar as each raisin.

Mariani has some dried fruits without sugar. Make sure to read labels before you buy the dried fruits.