vertical alignment of tabular environment inside description environment

Question

I am using tabular environment inside a description environment like:

\item[This is some description]
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
   apple:       &  200g \\
   pear:        &  206g \\
   banana:      &  114g \\
   orange:      &  150g \\
   grapefruit:  &  350g 
 \end{tabular}

 \lipsum[1]

However, the table then is not vertically aligned with the description label (see image).

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

The standard form for tabular is

\begin{tabular}[pos]{table spec}

where [pos] is option for position of its baseline: [t] at top, [b] at bottom and c at the vertical center, which is default. For details see LaTeX/Tables.

In your case, the MWE is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
    \begin{description}
\item[This is some description]
  \begin{tabular}[t]{ll}
   apple:       &  200g \\
   pear:        &  206g \\
   banana:      &  114g \\
   orange:      &  150g \\
   grapefruit:  &  350g
 \end{tabular}

 \lipsum[1]
     \end{description}
\end{document}

which produce: