How do dried fruits have more sugar than fresh fruits?

Question

How do dried fruits have more sugar than fresh fruits?

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Answer 1

It’s more sugar *per unit of weight*

Let’s just half-ass some numbers. Say an apple has 100 calories of sugar in it, and weighs 200 grams. That’s .5 calories/gram

Now you remove half the water via dehydration. It now weighs 100g and still ha 100 calories of sugar in it, so now it has 1 calorie/g.

Same total amount of sugar, more sugar per unit of weight