Healthiest fruits of 2025: These 5 fruits are richest in key nutrients

While most of us stick to the familiar fruits like bananas, apples, or grapes, many other options, however, can offer healthier benefits. Collaborating with nutritional experts and dieticians, TODAY.com has ranked fruits highest in key nutrients that can help the body function properly. Calling these fruits the healthiest ones of 2025 won’t be an overstatement. Have a look:

According to TODAY.com, passion fruit tops the list with 5 grams of protein per one cup of the tropical fruit. Protein is essential for satiety, tissue repair and muscle growth, with high-protein diets touted for aiding in weight loss, but often lacking in fiber.

Jackfruit tops the list with 739 milligrams of potassium per cup. Jackfruit is popularly known as a substitute for meat as it has a consistency to that of chicken or pork and can be cooked in stir fries and curries. The recommended daily amount of potassium is 3,400 milligrams for men and 2,600 milligrams for women.

Prickly pears tops the list with 83 milligrams of calcium per cup. Prickly pears is a cactus fruit. Patricia Bannan, a registered dietitian in Los Angeles tells TODAY.com that fruits aren’t top sources of calcium compared to dairy, fortified plant milks or leafy greens, but they can still add up throughout the day.

This one is surprising. Banana is the fruit with the highest electrolytes. These minerals include sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Banana is the best fruit to replenish electrolytes and can help the nerves, muscles, heart and the brain work properly.

Sour cherries top the list of highest antioxidants. Dieticians told TODAY.com that fruits in general are some of the top sources of antioxidants in the diet, reducing inflammation in the body. They also note that it can be hard to find fresh sour cherries, however, frozen ones can also work well.