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Foods high in Malic acid

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Malic acid content per 100 g, drawn live from 20 USDA FoodData Central measurements. Values are laboratory-analysed or survey-derived, not estimated.

Top 15 foods highest in Malic acid

Ranked by Malic acid per 100g, across Foundation Foods and FNDDS ingredients.

#Food or ingredientSourcePer 100g (MG)
1Cherries, sweet, dark red, rawFoundation Food762
2Cranberry juice, not fortified, from concentrate, shelf stableFoundation Food756
3Applesauce, unsweetened, with added vitamin CFoundation Food426
4Bananas, ripe and slightly ripe, rawFoundation Food369
5Apple juice, with added vitamin C, from concentrate, shelf stableFoundation Food360
6Bananas, overripe, rawFoundation Food290
7Pineapple, rawFoundation Food264
8Grape juice, purple, with added vitamin C, from concentrate, shelf stableFoundation Food228
9Strawberries, rawFoundation Food198
10Orange juice, no pulp, not fortified, from concentrate, refrigeratedFoundation Food161
11Orange juice, no pulp, not fortified, not from concentrate, refrigeratedFoundation Food160
12Grape juice, white, with added vitamin C, from concentrate, shelf stableFoundation Food89.2
13Raspberries, rawFoundation Food54.1
14Grapefruit juice, red, not fortified, not from concentrate, refrigeratedFoundation Food37.4
15Tomato juice, with added ingredients, from concentrate, shelf stableFoundation Food11.2

Lowest in Malic acid

For contrast — the 5 lowest non-zero values on record, per 100g.

#Food or ingredientSourcePer 100g (MG)
16Raspberries, rawFoundation Food54.08
17Strawberries, rawFoundation Food198
18Bananas, overripe, rawFoundation Food290
19Bananas, ripe and slightly ripe, rawFoundation Food369
20Applesauce, unsweetened, with added vitamin CFoundation Food426

More on Malic acid

What Malic acid is, how it is measured, and where these values come from.

Malic acid nutrient reference →

Sourced from USDA FoodData Central — Foundation Foods; not yet through an editorial verification pass.

USDA release 2026-04-30. All values are per 100 g unless stated otherwise.