Why is dried fruit always so sugary?

[Deicide]

I bought some dried cranberries the other day and am carb loading with them right now...I was expecting a more bitter taste but they are very sugary; the same applies to all the dried fruit I have had...anyone know why?

[wavelength]

Less water, more taste.
Could also be added sugar, of course.

[Deicide]

Less water, more taste.
Could also be added sugar, of course.

Yuck.

[Rimbaud]

Most companies add extra sugar to dried fruits - hence the sugary taste. My advice would be to read labels carefully & check for sugar listed as an ingredient.

[tbombz]

dont carb load wiyth fructose conatining carbs (fruits).  yuor liver is tiny asnd you;ll saturate liver glycogen quickly (long before you saturate muscle glycogen with glucose) and then youll be eating  'carbs' to fully replenish muscle glycogen but yet adding fat because liver glycogen is already full and you cant help but do so becaus e your fruits have some fructose.... fruits are very bad choice for carb loading...

[d0nny2600]

dont carb load wiyth fructose conatining carbs (fruits).  yuor liver is tiny asnd you;ll saturate liver glycogen quickly (long before you saturate muscle glycogen with glucose) and then youll be eating  'carbs' to fully replenish muscle glycogen but yet adding fat because liver glycogen is already full and you cant help but do so becaus e your fruits have some fructose.... fruits are very bad choice for carb loading...

Dude - For the love of readability go back to being careful how you post.

[tbombz]

Dude - For the love of readability go back to being careful how you post.

im laying on my side eating rice steak egg whites typing with one hand on a lap top with my face propped up on three pillows just high enough to eat and read thr key board by the light of the lap top screen.. i think i am typing quit well this morning under the circumstance... 

[d0nny2600]

im laying on my side eating rice steak egg whites typing with one hand on a lap top with my face propped up on three pillows just high enough to eat and read thr key board by the light of the lap top screen.. i think i am typing quit well this morning under the circumstance... 

Ok - You win. 

[QuakerOats]

I bought some dried cranberries the other day and am carb loading with them right now...I was expecting a more bitter taste but they are very sugary; the same applies to all the dried fruit I have had...anyone know why?

oh i don't know.................... ...............maybe because they add sugar to it.

[flexingtonsteele]

Carb loading for what???