How many calories are in Bing cherries?
A cup of pitted Bing cherries, 154 g of them, is 97 calories. Fresh sweet cherries run 63 calories per 100 g, which puts ten cherries at 52 and a single one at 5. The deep burgundy color that makes a Bing look richer than a pale cherry is a variety trait, not a nutritional one.
You'd need to walk about 19 minutes to burn the 97 calories in a cup of pitted cherries (154 g).
How long does it take to burn off Bing cherries?
A cup of pitted cherries (154 g) is 97 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
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| Activity | Time to burn 97 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 19 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 12 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 14 min |
| Jogging | 11 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 22 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (154 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Bing cherry quick facts
- One cup, two weights: the pit problem
- How many cherries you actually eat
- Why USDA has no Bing cherry record
- Dried and canned cherries change the math
- Sweet Bing against tart Montmorency
- What a cup of cherries does for your day
- How do Bing cherries compare?
- Most popular bing cherries brands
- FAQ
Bing cherry quick facts
Everything below describes raw sweet cherries with the pits removed, nothing added, from SR Legacy 171719, USDA's full-panel record for fresh sweet cherries. The serving column is USDA's own cup measure for that record: 154 g of pitted fruit.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 cup, pitted (154 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 63 | 97 | — |
| Total fat | 0.2 g | 0.3 g | 0% |
| Saturated fat | 0.04 g | 0.1 g | 0% |
| Carbohydrate | 16.0 g | 24.7 g | 9% |
| Dietary fiber | 2.1 g | 3.2 g | 12% |
| Total sugars | 12.8 g | 19.7 g | — |
| Protein | 1.1 g | 1.6 g | 3% |
| Sodium | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 222 mg | 342 mg | 7% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
There is no added sugars line in that table, and its absence is an answer rather than a hole. Nothing gets added to a cherry on the tree, so all 19.7 g of sugar in a cup arrived with the fruit. Total sugars carry no Daily Value on a US label either, which is why that cell stays empty.
Two rows are worth a second look. Fiber gives back 3.2 g per cup, 12% of the 28 g FDA Daily Value, a bigger slice of the day than the carbohydrate takes at 9%. Sodium is not low, it is absent: 0 mg, against a Daily Value of 2,300 mg.
One cup, two weights: the pit problem
This is where most cherry counts go sideways, and it has nothing to do with the fruit.
USDA lists two cup measures for fresh sweet cherries. A cup measured with the pits still in yields 138 g of fruit and 87 calories. A cup filled with already pitted cherries weighs 154 g and comes to 97 calories. Same fruit, same record, a 10-calorie gap created entirely by when you did the pitting.
The order of operations decides which number is yours. Pour whole cherries into a measuring cup, then eat around the pits, and the 138 g figure describes what went into you. Pit a bowlful first and then measure, and the cup holds more actual cherry, so 154 g is the honest line. Neither is wrong. Logging one while doing the other is how a bowl of fruit quietly gains or loses ten calories.
A third weight exists for a different reason. The NLEA serving, the 140 g reference portion that sits behind US nutrition labeling, lands at 88 calories and is almost identical to the with-pits cup. When a bag of cherries in the produce aisle carries a panel at all, that is usually the portion it describes.
How many cherries you actually eat
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cherry | 8.2 g | 5 |
| 1 oz | 28 g | 18 |
| 10 cherries | 82 g | 52 |
| 1 cup, with pits (yield) | 138 g | 87 |
| 1 NLEA label serving | 140 g | 88 |
| 1 cup, pitted | 154 g | 97 |
| 100 g | 100 g | 63 |
USDA weighs a single sweet cherry at 8.2 g, and that number does more work than the cup does. Divide it into the pitted cup and you get roughly 19 cherries — a good two handfuls, and a far easier thing to count than a measuring cup you never got out of the drawer.
Ten cherries, the portion people picture when they say "a few," is 82 g and 52 calories. Twenty is a shade over 100. An ounce, 28 g, works out to three or four cherries and 18 calories. At five calories apiece, the arithmetic stays friendly no matter how sloppy your estimate is: being wrong by five cherries costs 25 calories, which is less than the milk in a cup of coffee.
That density is the quiet argument for cherries as a snack. A pound of them, the amount that vanishes from a bowl on a summer afternoon, is around 285 calories, which is our own scaling of the 63-calorie 100 g to 454 g rather than a USDA portion.
Why USDA has no Bing cherry record
Search FoodData Central for "Bing" and the fruit itself does not appear. There is no cultivar-level record, and this page says so instead of inventing one.
Bing is the dominant sweet cherry in American stores, roughly the Washington and Oregon default, and it is Prunus avium like every other sweet cherry on the shelf. USDA's summary record for raw sweet cherries covers the whole species, which is why it is the right row to use for the fruit in your hand.
Two other federal records describe the same fruit and land in the same neighborhood:
| USDA record | Per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Cherries, sweet, raw (this page, SR Legacy) | 63 |
| Cherries, sweet, dark red, raw (Foundation) | 70.5 |
| Cherries, raw (survey record) | 71 |
Eight calories separate the highest from the lowest, and the reason is method rather than fruit. The newer laboratory record for dark red sweet cherries, which is about as close to a Bing as federal data gets, calculates its energy figure from measured macros. It also reports no value for sugars, fiber, saturated fat or cholesterol, four rows a US nutrition panel needs. Building the table above from that record would have meant stitching it together from two sources, so the whole panel comes from the one record that carries all of it.
If you see 63, 70 or 71 quoted for fresh cherries, none of those is a mistake. They are three federal readings of the same fruit, and the spread is smaller than the difference between a big cherry and a small one.
Dried and canned cherries change the math
Fresh is the easy case. Everything else in the cherry aisle has had water taken out or sugar put in.
| Form | Per 100 g | Serving | Calories | Sugars per 100 g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh sweet cherries, raw | 63 | 1 cup, pitted (154 g) | 97 | 12.8 g |
| Canned in water, with liquid | 46 | 1 cup, pitted (248 g) | 114 | 10.3 g |
| Canned in juice, with liquid | 54 | 1 cup, pitted (250 g) | 135 | 12.3 g |
| Canned in heavy syrup, drained | 83 | 1 cup (179 g) | 149 | 16.2 g |
| Canned in light syrup, with liquid | 67 | 1 cup, pitted (252 g) | 169 | 15.8 g |
| Dried sweetened cherries | 333 | 1 oz (28 g) | 93 | 67.2 g |
| Maraschino cherries, drained | 165 | — | — | 38.8 g |
Read the first column and canned cherries look like a diet food. Canned in water is 46 calories per 100 g against 63 for fresh, and canned in juice is 54. That is not the fruit getting lighter. It is syrup and water joining the weight, so every 100 g contains less cherry.
The serving column reverses it. A cup of cherries canned in juice, 250 g with the liquid, is 135 calories to the fresh cup's 97. Light syrup takes it to 169. The heavy syrup version drained of its liquid is the densest of the canned forms at 83 per 100 g, and a 179 g cup runs 149 calories with 16.2 g of sugar in every 100 g.
Dried is its own category. At 333 calories per 100 g, dried sweetened cherries are more than five times as concentrated as fresh, and the portion shrinks to match: one ounce, 28 g, a small handful, is 93 calories. That handful is essentially a whole cup of fresh cherries in calorie terms, delivered in 5.5 times less food. Nothing is wrong with that trade if you know you are making it. It goes wrong when dried cherries get logged by the cup.
Maraschino cherries, the ones on top of a sundae, are 165 calories per 100 g and 38.8 g of sugar. They start as a different variety, get bleached and steeped in syrup, and are a candy that happens to be shaped like fruit.
Sweet Bing against tart Montmorency
Two cherries share the produce section, and they are not interchangeable in a recipe or in a log.
Sweet cherries, the Bings and Rainiers eaten out of hand, are 63 calories per 100 g with 12.8 g of sugar. Tart cherries, the Montmorency type grown for pies and juice, are 50 calories per 100 g with 8.49 g of sugar. A cup of raw tart cherries, 155 g, is 78 calories against the sweet cup's 97.
The proportions are the interesting part. Tart cherries carry about a third less sugar but only a fifth fewer calories, because the acids and the slightly lower carbohydrate load do not scale together. Frozen unsweetened tart cherries hold that line at 46 calories per 100 g, which makes them the lightest cherry in the freezer case, though almost nobody eats a raw tart cherry by choice. By the time one reaches a pie or a bottle of juice, sugar has usually been added, and that added sugar is a line item neither raw cherry carries.
What a cup of cherries does for your day
A cup of Bing cherries costs about 5% of a 2,000-calorie day and returns 12% of the day's fiber. That ratio, more than the calorie number, is why cherries survive a calorie-counted week intact.
The rest of the panel is modest and honest about it. Potassium comes to 342 mg per cup, 7% of the Daily Value. Protein is 1.6 g, or 3%, so cherries are fruit and not a protein source. Fat rounds to nothing at 0.3 g. Sodium is a flat zero, which is unusual even among fruits.
Cherries also happen to be measured the way federal fruit advice is written. MyPlate counts fruit in cups, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans frame their sugar limit around added sugars rather than the sugar inside whole fruit. A cup of cherries is one cup of fruit with 19.7 g of sugar, none of it added, which is a different line item from 19.7 g out of a bottle.
How do Bing cherries compare?
| Item | Per 100 g | Carbs /100 g | Protein /100 g | Serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bing (sweet) cherries, raw (this page) | 63 | 16.0 g | 1.1 g | 1 cup, pitted (154 g) | 97 |
| Tart cherries, red, raw | 50 | 12.2 g | 1.0 g | 1 cup, pitted (155 g) | 78 |
| Sweet cherries, canned in juice | 54 | 13.8 g | 0.9 g | 1 cup, pitted (250 g) | 135 |
| Sweet cherries, heavy syrup, drained | 83 | 21.1 g | 0.7 g | 1 cup (179 g) | 149 |
| Dried sweetened cherries | 333 | 80.5 g | 1.3 g | 1 oz (28 g) | 93 |
Our take: for the lowest number in a bowl, raw tart cherries win at 78 calories a cup, but you will not enjoy them, so fresh Bings at 97 are the realistic pick and the one worth defaulting to. Skip the canned versions unless the cherries are going into something baked, because a cup in juice costs 38 more calories than the fresh fruit it replaced and brings less of it.
Most popular bing cherries brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Trader Joe's Unsweetened Unsulfured Dried Bing Cherries | 275 cal |
| Tillen Farms Bada Bing Cherries | 200 cal |
| Tillen Farms Bourbon Bada Bing Cherries | 200 cal |
| PCC Unsweetened Bing Cherries | 354 cal |
| Melissa's Dried Bing Cherries | 275 cal |
| Traina Sun Dried Sweet Bing Cherries | 333 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Bing cherry FAQs
How many calories are in Bing cherries?
97 calories in a cup of pitted Bing cherries, which USDA weighs at 154 g. That is 63 calories per 100 g of fresh sweet cherries, with 24.7 g of carbohydrate, 3.2 g of fiber, 19.7 g of natural sugars and 342 mg of potassium per cup. One cherry is 5 calories.
How many calories are in a cup of Bing cherries?
97 calories for a cup of already pitted cherries at 154 g, or 87 calories for a cup measured with the pits in, which yields 138 g of fruit. USDA lists both weights for the same record. Pit first and you fit more cherry into the same cup.
How many calories are in 10 Bing cherries?
52 calories for 10 cherries, which comes to 82 g at USDA's weight of 8.2 g per cherry. A single cherry is 5 calories, so 20 cherries land just above 100. A pitted cup holds roughly 19 cherries, which is where the 97-calorie figure comes from.
How many carbs are in Bing cherries?
24.7 g of carbohydrate in a 154 g cup, which is 9% of the 275 g Daily Value. Per 100 g the figure is 16.0 g. Of the cup's total, 3.2 g is fiber and 19.7 g is sugars. Tart cherries are lower at 12.2 g per 100 g.
How much sugar is in Bing cherries?
19.7 g of total sugars in a cup, or 12.8 g per 100 g. None of it is added sugar, since nothing is added to a raw cherry, and USDA reports no added sugars figure for the fruit. Total sugars have no Daily Value on a US label, so that column stays blank.
Bing cherries or tart cherries - which has fewer calories?
Tart cherries, at 50 calories per 100 g against 63 for sweet Bings. Per cup that is 78 calories to 97. Tart cherries also carry 8.49 g of sugar per 100 g against 12.8 g, though they are grown for pies and juice rather than for eating raw.
How many calories are in dried Bing cherries?
333 calories per 100 g for dried sweetened cherries, which puts a 1 oz handful (28 g) at 93 calories. That handful matches a whole cup of fresh cherries at 97 calories, in 5.5 times less food. Sugars run 67.2 g per 100 g against 12.8 g fresh.
Are Bing cherries good for you?
A cup of Bing cherries is 97 calories with 3.2 g of fiber (12% of the Daily Value), 342 mg of potassium (7%) and 0 mg of sodium. That is 12% of a day's fiber for about 5% of a 2,000-calorie day. Federal advice at MyPlate counts fruit in cups, which is the unit cherries already come in.
Similar foods
- Bartlett Pear — 112 cal per medium pear
- Mango — 99 cal per cup pieces
- Fruit cup — 89 cal per cup
- Gala Apple — 98 cal per medium apple
- Grapes — 104 cal per cup
- Apple — 95 cal per medium apple
Count it without the math
Point the camera at the bowl and BodyPal logs the cup, the ten cherries and the dried handful without a scale or a measuring cup.
