5 a day portion size examples of fruit
Fruit Equivalent to 80g portion
Apple - fresh 1 medium apple
Apple - dried rings 4 rings
Apricot - canned 6 halves
Apricot - fresh 3 apricots
Avocado Half an avocado
Banana chips 1 handful
Banana - fresh 1 medium banana
Blackberries 1 handful
Blackcurrants 4 heaped tablespoons
Blueberries 2 handfuls
Cherries - fresh 14 cherries
Cherries - canned 11 cherries
Clementine 2 Clementine
Currants - dried 1 heaped tablespoon
Gooseberries 1 handful
Grapefruit segments - canned 3 heaped tablespoons
Grapefruit - fresh Half a grapefruit
Grapes 1 handful
Kiwi fruit 2 kiwi fruit
Mandarin orange - canned 3 heaped tablespoons
Mango 2 slices
Melon 1 slice
Mixed fruit - dried 1 heaped tablespoon
Orange 1 orange
Passion fruit 5 to 6 fruit
Papaya - fresh 1 slice
Peach - canned 2 halves or 7 slices
Peach - fresh 1 medium peach
Pear - canned 2 halves or 7 slices
Pear - fresh 1 medium pear
Pineapple - canned 2 rings or 12 chunks
Pineapple - fresh 1 large slice
Plum 2 medium plums
Prune - canned 6 prunes
Prune - ready to eat 3 prunes
Raisins 1 tablespoon
Raspberries - canned 20 raspberries
Raspberries - fresh 2 handfuls
Rhubarb - cooked 2 heaped tablespoons
Satsuma 2 small Satsuma
Strawberry - canned 9 strawberries
Strawberry - fresh 7 strawberries
Sultanas 1 heaped tablespoon
5 a day portion size examples of vegetables
Veggies Equivalent to 80g portion
Artichoke 2 hearts
Asparagus - fresh 5 spears
Aubergine 1/3rd aubergine
Beans, black eye - cooked 3 heaped tablespoons
Beans, broad - cooked 3 heaped tablespoons
Beans, butter - cooked 3 heaped tablespoons
Beans, cannelloni - cooked 3 heaped tablespoons
Beans, French - cooked 4 heaped tablespoons
Beans, kidney - cooked 3 heaped tablespoons
Beans, runner - cooked 4 heaped tablespoons
Beansprouts - fresh 2 handfuls
Beetroot - bottled 3 'baby' whole, or 7 slices
Broccoli 2 spears
Brussels sprouts 8 Brussels sprouts
Cabbage 1/6th small cabbage or 2 handfuls sliced
Cabbage - shredded 3 heaped tablespoons
Carrots - canned 3 heaped tablespoons
Carrots - fresh slices 3 heaped tablespoons
Cauliflower 8 florets
Celery 3 sticks
Courgettes Half a large courgette
Cucumber 2-inch piece
Curly kale - cooked 4 heaped tablespoons
Leeks 1 leek (white portion only)
Lettuce (mixed leaves) 1 cereal bowl
Mangetout 1 handful
Mushrooms - button 14 button
Mushrooms - dried 2 tablespoons or handful porcini
Okra 16 medium
Onion - fresh 1 medium onion
Parsnips 1 large
Peas - canned 3 heaped tablespoons
Peas - fresh 3 heaped tablespoons
Peas - frozen 3 heaped tablespoons
Pepper - fresh Half a pepper
Radish 10 radishes
Spinach - fresh 1 cereal bowl
Spring onion 8 onions
Sugarsnap peas 1 handful
Swede - diced and cooked 3 heaped tablespoons
Sweetcorn - baby 6 baby corn
Sweetcorn - canned 3 heaped tablespoons
Sweetcorn - on the cob 1 cob
Tomato puree 1 heaped tablespoon
Tomato - canned plum 2 whole
Tomato - fresh 1 medium or 7 cherry
Tomato - sundried 4 pieces
Information reference 5aday.nhs.uk

