How many calories in cherries
A bowl of cherries has 95 kcal, almost all of it from carbs.
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To burn it off
Cherries are water, natural sugar and a little fibre. Sweet ones in summer taste like sweets, and they're nowhere near the number.
A bowl is 95 kcal. The stones slow you down, which is no bad thing.
Glacé cherries in a cake are a different story, they're soaked in sugar. Fresh ones are what this page is about.
Tips
- 1Buy them when they're in season, they're sweeter and cheaper.
- 2Have a bowl after dinner instead of something from the biscuit tin.
- 3Freeze pitted ones for smoothies.
Where it comes from
Sweet cherries come from the lands between the Caspian Sea and the Balkans, and the best early ones grew in Pontus, on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia. The story goes, as told by the Roman writer Pliny, that the general Lucullus brought cherry trees to Rome from there in the 70s BC. The word goes back to Greek kerasos, and English cherry lost its final s because cherise sounded like a plural.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Online Etymology Dictionary, cherry
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Questions
How many calories in a handful of cherries?
A handful is roughly a third of a bowl, so about 30 kcal.
How much sugar is in cherries?
A bowl has about 24 g of carbs, mostly natural sugar.
Are sour cherries lower?
Fresh, they're similar. Dried or in syrup they're much higher.
How many cherries are in a bowl?
A 150 g bowl is roughly 20 cherries, so each one is around 5 kcal.
How do you pit cherries without a pitter?
Pull off the stalk and push a chopstick or a sturdy straw through where it was. The stone pops out the other side.
