Nutrition per serving 1 medium (150 g)
- Water 133.5 g89%
- Sugars 12.6 g8%
- Fibre 2.3 g2%
- Other carbs 0 g0%
- Protein 1.4 g1%
- Fat 0.4 g0%
| Nutrient | Per serving | % daily value |
|---|---|---|
| Vitamin C | 9.9 mg | 11% |
| Fiber | 2.3 g | 8% |
| Potassium | 285 mg | 6% |
| Vitamin E | 1.1 mg | 7% |
| Niacin (B3) | 1.2 mg | 8% |
| Copper | 0.1 mg | 11% |
| Vitamin A | 24 mcg RAE | 3% |
| Vitamin K | 3.9 mcg | 3% |
| Total sugars | 13 g | 25% |
Composition data: USDA FoodData Central ↗
What is Peach?
Peach (Prunus persica) is a fruit used for contributes to lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality risk as part of high fruit/vegetable intake (cohort-level, not peach-specific). NutriDex grades the human evidence as Mixed. Direct human trials on peach alone are scarce, so most evidence is indirect, drawn from large prospective cohorts and meta-analyses of total fruit intake. Pooling ~95 prospective studies (Aune 2017), each 200 g/day of fruit and vegetables is associated with roughly 8% lower cardiovascular disease (RR 0.92) and 10% lower all-cause mortality (RR 0.90), with benefit plateauing near 800 g/day. In three large US cohorts (Muraki 2013, >187,000 adults), whole fruit intake was modestly protective against type 2 diabetes overall, but the peach/plum/apricot group specifically was non-significant (HR 0.97, 0.92-1.02 per 3 servings/week) while fruit juice raised risk. Peaches are a meaningful dietary source of hydroxycinnamic acids, flavan-3-ols and carotenoids, and laboratory and animal work documents antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, but these mechanistic findings have not been confirmed by peach-specific clinical endpoints. The main limitations are confounding in observational data, the absence of randomized peach trials, and the fact that benefits attributed to "fruit" cannot be cleanly assigned to peach. Overall the human evidence supports peach as a healthful, low-energy, nutrient- and polyphenol-containing fruit but does not establish disease-specific therapeutic effects.