How Many Calories in Cherries?
Vitamin C & Fiber Content
Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites
Cherry, a Super Food for Your Diet Plan
So many delicious 'weighs' with the healthy cherry!
It's a super food and no wonder; it's packed with Vitamin C to fight infection, heal would, promote healthy gums, to boost our immunity and it words diligently in enhancing the absorption of iron from other foods that we eat on our meal plate.
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It's also naturally low in caloric values and dietary fat; it contains zero cholesterol, is naturally low in sodium (salt) and contains zero caffeine.
Excellent Source for Dietary Fiber Grams
It's also a good source for dietary fiber; one cup provides upwards to two fiber grams.
Fiber is necessary for the body as it promotes a healthy digestive system. It can assist in regulation of potty time - quelling constipation issues.
It also can help in keeping the appetite satisfied, thus assisting the dieter with weight loss.
There is nothing quite like battling a raging appetite when one is dieting and cherries can come to the rescue with a skinny 50 calories per cup for the sour varieties and about 90 calories for the sweet varieties.
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Nutrition Facts, Calories in Cherries
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Type of Cherries, Per Cup |
Calories in Cherries |
Fiber Grams |
Vitamin C, |
| sour, raw, with pits |
52 |
1.6 |
10.3 |
| sour, raw, without pits |
78 |
2.5 |
15.5 |
| sweet, raw, with pits |
87 |
2.9 |
9.7 |
| sweet, raw, without pits |
97 |
3.2 |
10.83 |
| sweet, raw per cherry |
5 |
0.2 |
0.6 |
| canned in heavy syrup |
266 |
3.9 |
9.4 |
| canned in light syrup |
169 |
3.8 |
9.3 |
| canned, water-packed |
114 |
3.7 |
5.5 |
| sweet, raw, frozen |
231 |
5.4 |
2.6 |
| sour, raw, frozen |
71 |
2.5 |
2.6 |
| Maraschino Cherry - jar or can [1 cherry] |
8 |
0.2 |
0.0 |
| canned in heavy syrup [10 ounce package] |
293 |
12.5 |
46.9 |
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