diff --git a/examples/other/use-custom-fetch-composable/composables/useCustomFetch.ts b/examples/other/use-custom-fetch-composable/composables/useCustomFetch.ts
index 2464b3cd45ff..db9e572744e0 100644
--- a/examples/other/use-custom-fetch-composable/composables/useCustomFetch.ts
+++ b/examples/other/use-custom-fetch-composable/composables/useCustomFetch.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export function useCustomFetch<T> (url: string, options: UseFetchOptions<T> = {}
   }
 
   // for nice deep defaults, please use unjs/defu
-  const params = defu(defaults, options)
+  const params = defu(options, defaults)
 
   return useFetch(url, params)
 }