How many calories are in a Bosc pear?
One medium Bosc pear weighs 179 g and carries 120 calories. Per 100 g the raw fruit runs 67 calories, which puts it among the lightest things you can eat whole and still call dessert. It also brings 5.5 g of fiber and 18.3 g of naturally occurring sugar.
You'd need to walk about 24 minutes to burn the 120 calories in one medium pear (179 g).
How long does it take to burn off a Bosc pear?
One medium pear (179 g) is 120 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 120 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 24 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 15 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 17 min |
| Jogging | 14 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 27 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 (179 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Bosc pear quick facts
- US servings, from one ounce to a large pear
- Small, medium, large and sliced
- Fiber is the row that earns the pear its place
- How does a Bosc pear compare?
- Most popular bosc pear brands
- Bosc pear FAQs
Bosc pear quick facts
Everything here traces back to one record: SR Legacy 167778, "Pears, raw, bosc". It is the only USDA entry written for the bosc variety specifically, and it describes the fruit raw, skin on, which is how almost everyone eats it. Every serving below — small, medium, large, cup of slices — is scaled from that same record, so the sizes stay consistent with one another.
Bosc is the long-necked, cinnamon-brown pear that stays firm when the others go soft. That firmness is texture, not calories: at 67 per 100 g it sits one calorie above the green Anjou beside it in the bin.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 medium pear (179 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 67 | 120 | — |
| Total fat | 0.09 g | 0.2 g | 0% |
| Carbohydrate | 16.1 g | 28.8 g | 10% |
| Dietary fiber | 3.1 g | 5.5 g | 20% |
| Total sugars | 10.23 g | 18.3 g | — |
| Protein | 0.36 g | 0.6 g | 1% |
| Sodium | 1 mg | 2 mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 122 mg | 218 mg | 5% |
% 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 →
Three rows you would see on a packaged label are missing here on purpose. USDA does not publish saturated fat, added sugars or cholesterol for this record, so they are left out rather than written as zeros — though a raw pear has no added sugar by definition, and with 0.09 g of total fat per 100 g there is almost nothing for a saturated fat line to hold. Sodium is the other near-blank: 2 mg in a whole pear, which is nothing next to the 2,300 mg Daily Value the FDA sets. Potassium is the quiet win at 218 mg per fruit.
US servings, from one ounce to a large pear
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 19 kcal |
| 1 cup, sliced | 140 g | 94 kcal |
| 1 small pear | 159 g | 107 kcal |
| 1 medium pear | 179 g | 120 kcal |
| 1 large pear | 219 g | 147 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 67 kcal |
The small, medium, large and cup-sliced weights are USDA household measures attached to record 167778. The one-ounce line is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving; it is there because ounces are how a kitchen scale talks.
The cup line is where most logs go wrong. One cup of slices is 140 g, but a medium pear is 179 g — 39 g and 26 calories more. Slice a whole pear into a bowl and you have not made a cup, you have made a cup and a quarter. If you started with a whole fruit, log the fruit.
Small, medium, large and sliced
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical piece | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosc pear, small | 67 kcal | 159 g | 107 kcal |
| Bosc pear, medium | 67 kcal | 179 g | 120 kcal |
| Bosc pear, large | 67 kcal | 219 g | 147 kcal |
| Bosc pear, sliced | 67 kcal | 1 cup, 140 g | 94 kcal |
| Oneonta fresh Bosc, package label | 60 kcal | 1 medium, 166 g | 100 kcal |
Nothing here changes the fruit — only how much of it you are holding. Small to large is a 40-calorie spread, and produce bins mix all three sizes at one price, so a week of "one pear a day" can swing by 280 calories without anyone eating differently.
The last row is worth a second look. The fresh Oneonta Bosc pears sold in bags carry a label reading 100 calories for a 166 g medium pear, or 60 per 100 g. USDA says 67. That is not a different pear; it is the rounding allowance packers get on fresh produce labels, plus a slightly smaller idea of "medium." When the two disagree, the USDA record is the better bet for a fruit you picked out yourself, because you have no idea which of the packer's pears you grabbed.
Fiber is the row that earns the pear its place
A medium Bosc pear delivers 5.5 g of dietary fiber — 20% of the 28 g Daily Value — for 120 calories. That ratio is the whole argument for eating pears. Very few foods hand over a fifth of the day's fiber at a cost you can spend twice more and still be under 400 calories.
Most of that fiber is in and immediately under the skin, which is why peeling a Bosc is an expensive habit. The skin is also what makes the variety worth buying: it is thin enough to eat, unlike the sandy skins on some cooking pears.
Sugar is the row people flinch at. A whole pear holds 18.3 g of total sugars, and there is no % Daily Value for total sugars, so the column stays empty. All of it is intrinsic to the fruit. The federal limit that gets quoted — 50 g — is for added sugars, and a raw pear contributes none of it. Whole fruit is a food group MyPlate asks adults to build meals around, and the Dietary Guidelines treat it the same way.
Protein is the one place the pear is useless: 0.6 g in a whole fruit, 1% of the Daily Value. Pair it with something that has protein if you are calling it a snack rather than a dessert.
How does a Bosc pear compare?
| Fruit | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosc pear | 67 kcal | one medium, 179 g | 120 kcal |
| Green Anjou pear | 66 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 18 kcal |
| Grapes, American slip-skin | 67 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 19 kcal |
| Guava, common | 68 kcal | 1 oz, 28 g | 19 kcal |
The ounce servings for the three comparison fruits are our own arithmetic from their USDA 100 g figures, not USDA household measures — the gram weights for their cup measures were not in the source records.
Our take: stop shopping for pears by calorie. All four of these fruits sit inside a two-calorie band per 100 g, so choosing Bosc over Anjou saves you nothing measurable, and grapes are no worse per gram than either pear. What actually differs is how the calories arrive. A pear arrives as one object with a stem, which stops itself; grapes arrive by the handful and do not. If you want the most nutrition per calorie in this group, guava wins on protein by roughly seven times, 2.55 g against 0.36 g per 100 g. If you want the thing you will actually finish and then stop eating, buy the pear.
Most popular bosc pear 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) |
|---|---|
| Oneonta Bosc Pears | 60 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Bosc pear FAQs
How many calories are in a medium Bosc pear?
120 calories for a medium Bosc pear of 179 g, based on the USDA raw bosc record at 67 calories per 100 g. A small pear of 159 g comes to 107 and a large one of 219 g reaches 147, so the size you grab moves the number by about 40 calories.
How much fiber is in a Bosc pear?
5.5 g of fiber in a medium 179 g pear, which is 20% of the 28 g Daily Value the FDA uses on nutrition labels. That is one fifth of a day's fiber for 120 calories, and most of it sits in and just under the skin, so peeling costs you.
How many carbs are in a Bosc pear?
28.8 g of carbohydrate in a medium 179 g Bosc pear, or 10% of the Daily Value. Of that, 5.5 g is fiber and 18.3 g is sugar, leaving only a few grams of anything else. Per 100 g the raw fruit holds 16.1 g of carbohydrate.
How much sugar does a Bosc pear have?
18.3 g of total sugar in a medium 179 g pear, from 10.23 g per 100 g. All of it occurs naturally in the fruit; the USDA record lists no added sugars, and total sugars carry no Daily Value on the label, so the percent column stays empty.
How many calories in a cup of sliced Bosc pear?
94 calories in one cup of sliced Bosc pear, which is 140 g. That is 26 calories less than a whole medium pear, because a cup of slices weighs 39 g less than the 179 g fruit. If you sliced a whole pear, log the pear, not the cup.
How many calories in a Bosc pear vs an Anjou pear?
67 calories per 100 g for Bosc, 66 for green Anjou, a single calorie apart. Scaled to the same 179 g, our own arithmetic from the USDA figures puts an Anjou at 118 against 120 for the Bosc. Anjou carries slightly more protein, 0.44 g against 0.36 g.
How many calories in a large Bosc pear?
147 calories in a large Bosc pear of 219 g, against 120 for a medium 179 g fruit and 107 for a small 159 g one. The gap between the smallest and largest pear in a produce bin is 40 calories, which is more than most people expect from one piece of fruit.
Is a Bosc pear good for weight loss?
At 120 calories with 5.5 g of fiber, a medium Bosc pear is one of the cheaper ways to end a meal on something sweet. Fiber slows the eating down, and MyPlate asks adults to make half the plate fruits and vegetables. Portion still decides the total: three large pears in a day is 441 calories.
Similar foods
- Grapes — 104 cal per cup
- Bartlett Pear — 112 cal per medium pear
- Bing Cherries — 97 cal per cup without pits
- Kiwi — 42 cal per medium kiwi
- Mango — 99 cal per cup pieces
- Fruit cup — 89 cal per cup
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