PointsPlus made many favorite foods more "expensive" in points but also added more points to the daily allotment, up to a whopping 29 points (later reduced to 26). During the PointsPlus era, Weight Watchers designated many fruits as PointsPlus Power Foods, encouraging us to eat these more often than other foods. Many fruits joined vegetables as "free" foods with "zero" points. POINTS PLUS (late 2010-late 2015) Weight Watchers introduced a new point-counting system called PointsPlus in the U.S. I remember so well, I got 18 points per day and I used one-point fruit servings for small snacks and to fill up a day's point count. In fact, I first posted this page back in 2010 to identify common fruits in convenient, one-point servings. OLD POINTS (at least 2002-2010) When I first joined WW in 20002, fruit had points. such as lychee and durian and rambutan and cherimoya and mangosteen and and and. A fruit that's not widely available in the U.S.A fruit mostly available via foraging (pawpaws, say).A fruit known by multiple names (muskmelon for cantaloupe, say).A branded fruit (for example Cuties, the tiny tangerines).A fruit variety (for example, honeycrisps, the apples).If a fruit isn't specifically named on Weight Watchers free fruit list, it's safe to assume that the unlisted fruit is also free on Weight Watchers Freestyle program. FRUIT PREPARATIONS: Unsweetened cooked fruit, unsweetened applesauce, unsweetened & drained fruit cocktail, unsweetened fruit salad and unsweetened melon balls.OTHER: Pomegranate, fresh figs (sorry, no dried figs), kiwifruit (kiwi) and star fruit/carambola.TROPICAL FRUITS: Bananas, guava, jackfruit, papayas, passionfruit and pineapple.STONE FRUITS: Apricots, cherries, fresh dates (fresh dates only, dried dates don't qualify), mangoes, nectarines, peaches, plums and plumcots/pluots.MELONS: Cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon.GRAPES: black grapes, green grapes and red grapes.CITRUS: grapefruit, kumquats, lemon juice & zest, lime juice & zest, oranges (including blood oranges), pomelo/pummelo, tangelos and tangerines.BERRIES: Blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries. APPLES & PEARS: Apples, crabapples and pears.Without free fruit, a five-ounce banana would be 7 points – seven points and a full 25% of a day's worth of 23 points. In the official Weight Watchers Freestyle program, bananas are free, to the elation of many members who proclaim triumphantly, "I eat bananas and I'm still losing weight!" Source Your Questions About Fruits & Veggies Are Bananas Free? Really?! YES. Nutshell: Let your hunger, and your weight loss, be your guide." "If you’re eating more fruits and vegetables than you used to, but you’re using them for healthy snacks, to bulk up your meals, or as a tide-me-over when you’re down to the last few SmartPoints values for the day or week, then great! If you’re overeating bananas because they’re “free,” you might want to pull back a bit. We encourage you to eat fruits and vegetables because they are nutritious, satisfying, and tasty." "Fruits and vegetables aren’t magically calorie-free just because most of them are zero SmartPoints values. Weight Watchers is quick to state that free fruit doesn't mean unlimited fruit. Some vegetables often treated like fruit (avocados and rhubarb, for example) are not free.ĭoes WW Allow Unlimited Fruit Consumption? NO! Does WW Even Encourage Eating Lots of Fruit? NO!.The liquid in unsweetened canned fruit (i.e., the fruit is canned in its own juice) is not free.Fruit juice is not free (except lemon juice and lime juice).SOME FORMS of FRUIT HAVE POINTS (that is, ARE NOT FREE) BUT only whole fruit and cut up fruit are free.All fruits are free, whether fresh fruit, frozen fruit or canned fruit.The information in this section reflects Weight Watchers' official myWW program that Weight Watchers introduced in late 2019. What Fruits Are Free in the Official Weight Watchers Program? If fruit is your downfall in Weight Watchers, you understand how easy it is to eat enough fruit that your weight loss journey has stalled or plateaued or just isn't happening fast enough. So if like me, fruit is your candy, you know why you've found this page. fruit has points, SmartPoints, WW's current point-calculation system. If free fruit works for you, then this page isn't for you.īut I'm listening to my body and watching my scale and holding tight to what works for me with Weight Watchers and making personal adjustments to what doesn't.Īnd that means. I want to be 100% transparent about that decision. So I'm going out on a limb here, parting paths with Weight Watchers' official point calculations. When I eat fruit, even a couple of pieces of fruit a day, I don't. I have to either avoid fruit entirely or count the points. And for some people, choosing "free" fruit instead of sweets or chips is a smart choice.īut "free fruit" just doesn't work for me. But Free Fruit Doesn't Work for Everyone.
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