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Carb Count for Pears

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Tara Kimball

Pears are a distant relative of apples, though softer in texture when fully ripe. Pears soften from the sugars created when the natural starch in the fruit breaks down. The many varieties of pears offer only slight differences in flavor.