✦ Good source of vitamin C ✦ Low in calories ✦ Provides copper ✦ Contains polyphenols

Lychees are small tropical fruit with a rough red skin, a single seed and translucent floral-sweet flesh. They are a good source of vitamin C.

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Preparation note

Weighed with skin and stone figures reflect inedible portions; eat the flesh raw to keep heat-sensitive vitamin C.

Sources: CoFID 2021

Macronutrients per 100g

36.0
kcal
Energy
0.50
g
Protein
8.90
g
Carbs
0.40
g
Fibre
0.10
g
Fat
8.90
g
Sugars
0.00
g
Salt

Vitamins & Minerals

Nutrient Per 100g % Daily Value* Level
Potassium 99.0 mg 5%
Vitamin C 28.0 mg 35%
Phosphorus 19.0 mg 3%
Magnesium 6.00 mg 2%
Calcium 4.00 mg 1%
Chloride 2.00 mg 0%
Niacin (B3) 0.300 mg 2%
Iron 0.300 mg 2%
Niacin equivalents (NE) 0.300 mg 2%
Zinc 0.200 mg 2%
Copper 0.090 mg 9%
Riboflavin (B2) 0.040 mg 3%
Thiamin (B1) 0.020 mg 2%
Manganese 0.000 mg 0%
Vitamin B12 0.000 µg 0%
Vitamin D 0.000 µg 0%
Vitamin A (RE) 0.000 µg 0%
Trans fat 0.000 g —
Fructose 4.50 g —
Glucose (dextrose) 4.30 g —
Maltose 0.000 g —
Sucrose 0.000 g —
Cholesterol 0.000 mg —
Beta-carotene 0.000 µg —
Retinol (vitamin A) 0.000 µg 0%

* % Daily Value is the proportion of an adult EU Nutrient Reference Value (NRV) supplied by 100g of this food. NRVs are the labelling standard — the same basis as the “%RI” figures printed on food packaging — so these percentages are directly comparable with a shop label. They are a single adult figure and do not vary by age or sex, which is why they sometimes differ from UK dietary reference values: the NRV for vitamin C is 80mg where the UK RNI is 40mg. When Nutriofia assesses your own intake in the reports and trackers, it uses the age- and sex-specific UK values instead.

Fibre is shown without a percentage. Our fibre values use the UK Englyst NSP method, while the published 30g daily goal is an AOAC figure — the two are measured differently and a single percentage would mislead. How we source and normalise our data →

Sources: CoFID 2021
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