Calories in sweet cherries.
63 kcal per 100 g.
Cherries, sweet, raw · SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA FDC 171719
Nutrition for your portion
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | 100 g |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 63 kcal | 63 kcal |
| Protein | 1.06 g | 1.06 g |
| Carbohydrates | 16 g | 16 g |
| Fat | 0.2 g | 0.2 g |
| Fibre | 2.1 g | 2.1 g |
| Sugars | 12.8 g | 12.8 g |
| Saturated fat | 0.04 g | 0.04 g |
| Sodium | 0 mg | 0 mg |
| Salt (calculated from sodium) | 0 g | 0 g |
| Vitamin A (RAE) | 3 ug | 3 ug |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | 0 ug | 0 ug |
| Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) | 0.07 mg | 0.07 mg |
| Vitamin K (phylloquinone) | 2.1 ug | 2.1 ug |
| Vitamin C | 7 mg | 7 mg |
| Thiamin | 0.03 mg | 0.03 mg |
| Riboflavin | 0.03 mg | 0.03 mg |
| Niacin | 0.15 mg | 0.15 mg |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.05 mg | 0.05 mg |
| Folate, total | 4 ug | 4 ug |
| Vitamin B12 | 0 ug | 0 ug |
| Potassium | 222 mg | 222 mg |
| Calcium | 13 mg | 13 mg |
| Phosphorus | 21 mg | 21 mg |
| Magnesium | 11 mg | 11 mg |
| Iron | 0.36 mg | 0.36 mg |
| Zinc | 0.07 mg | 0.07 mg |
| Selenium | 0 ug | 0 ug |
| Iodine | Unknown | Unknown |
| Copper | 0.06 mg | 0.06 mg |
Energy comes from USDA nutrient 1008. Salt is calculated as sodium × 2.5, with unit conversion to grams. It is not a separately measured salt value.
Preparation
Sweet cherries are 63 kcal per 100 g raw. Cooking them into a compote or a pie filling removes water and adds sugar, and both push the figure up sharply — a tinned cherry filling bears little relation to this row. Dried and glacé cherries even less: drying concentrates the sugar that is already there, and glacé cherries are candied in syrup.
Logging this food
One cherry is 8 g and 5 kcal, which makes counting genuinely viable — twenty cherries is about 100. A cup without pits is 154 g and 97 kcal; a cup with pits yields 138 g and 87. Weigh the pits you spit out, or log the with-pits row and accept it as close enough, which for a food at 5 kcal a piece it is.
Swaps and alternatives
Blueberries are 57 kcal per 100 g, raspberries 52 and strawberries 32. Grapes at 69 are the only thing in this family denser than cherries. As with the rest of the berries, no swap here saves more than a handful's worth, and all five are among the lightest things on this site.