How many calories are in celery?
One cup of chopped celery weighs 101 g and carries 14 calories. Per 100 g raw celery is also 14 calories, because a cup lands almost exactly on 100 g. A medium stalk is 6. The whole cup holds 3.0 g of carbohydrate, 1.6 g of fiber and 0.7 g of protein.
On this page
- Celery quick facts
- US servings from one stalk to a full cup
- How cooking and juicing change the number
- Fiber and sodium are the rows that move
- How does celery compare?
- Most popular celery brands
- FAQ
Celery quick facts
The record behind this page is SR Legacy 169988, "Celery, raw". That is the celery a shopper actually holds: a raw stalk snapped off a bunch. It is also the only raw celery entry with the full set of rows a food label needs, fiber and sugars and saturated fat and sodium together, plus household measures counted in stalks rather than grams.
There are two other raw entries, and they disagree slightly. Foundation 2346405 reports 16.7 calories per 100 g using Atwater factors, with no fiber or sugar figures at all. FNDDS 2709778 inherits that profile and rounds to 17. Same vegetable, different arithmetic, a three-calorie gap. Nothing here averages them.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 cup chopped (101 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 14 | 14 | — |
| Total fat | 0.17 g | 0.2 g | 0% |
| Saturated fat | 0.04 g | 0.0 g | 0% |
| Carbohydrate | 2.97 g | 3.0 g | 1% |
| Dietary fiber | 1.6 g | 1.6 g | 6% |
| Total sugars | 1.34 g | 1.4 g | — |
| Protein | 0.69 g | 0.7 g | 1% |
| Sodium | 80 mg | 81 mg | 4% |
% 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 row because the SR Legacy edition never measured that value, and raw celery has none to measure. Cholesterol is 0 mg. Potassium is 260 mg per 100 g, which works out to 263 mg in the cup, or 6% of the FDA Daily Value of 4,700 mg. Fiber and potassium are the only two rows on the raw record that reach 6%.
US servings from one stalk to a full cup
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 stalk, medium (7-1/2"–8" long) | 40 g | 6 kcal |
| 1 stalk, large (11"–12" long) | 64 g | 9 kcal |
| 1 cup chopped | 101 g | 14 kcal |
| 1 NLEA serving | 110 g | 15 kcal |
| 1 oz | 28 g | 4 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 14 kcal |
The stalks, the cup and the 110 g NLEA serving are USDA household measures on the raw record, so those weights are not guesses. The 1 oz line is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving.
Two things fall out of that table. First, the cup and the 100 g line give the same 14 calories, which is a rare coincidence and makes celery unusually easy to log either way. Second, the stalk is the unit people actually eat, and it is small: five medium stalks, a generous snack plate, still total 30 calories.
Bagged celery sticks sit close to the raw record but not on it. USDA Branded lists Dandy Celery Sticks at 18 calories per 100 g and 15 per 85 g pack, Ocean Mist Farms celery at 14 per 100 g, and Marketside Celery Sticks at 11. Label rounding on a food this light swings the per-100-g number from 11 to 18 without a single stalk changing.
How cooking and juicing change the number
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw celery (FNDDS record) | 17 kcal | 1 cup, 120 g | 20 kcal |
| Boiled, no salt | 18 kcal | 1 cup diced, 150 g | 27 kcal |
| Boiled, salted water | 18 kcal | 1 cup diced, 150 g | 27 kcal |
| Cooked with fat | 42 kcal | 1 cup, 155 g | 65 kcal |
| Celery juice | 17 kcal | 1 cup, 236 g | 40 kcal |
| Pickled celery | 35 kcal | 100 g | 35 kcal |
Boiling moves the number up, not down. Water leaves, solids stay, and 14 becomes 18 per 100 g. Salting the water does nothing to the calories at all, which is why the two boiled rows are identical.
Fat is the whole story on the cooked line. USDA's "Celery, cooked" survey record carries 2.9 g of fat per 100 g, and that alone takes it to 42 calories, exactly triple the raw figure. A cup of celery softened in butter for a soup base is 65 calories, more than four cups of it raw.
Juice looks like a rebrand of the same vegetable, and by composition it is: 17 calories per 100 g. The catch is the pour. A cup of juice is 236 g, so 40 calories go down in seconds, where 236 g of stalks would be about six medium ones and a lot of chewing.
Pickled celery is the one to read twice. It is 35 calories per 100 g because the brine is sweetened, with 5.98 g of sugar against 1.34 g raw, and it carries 1,025 mg of sodium in that same 100 g.
Fiber and sodium are the rows that move
Everything on the celery label rounds toward zero except two rows. A cup gives 1.6 g of fiber, 6% of the 28 g Daily Value, while the same cup returns 1% for carbohydrate and 1% for protein. That is the argument for celery: it is fiber and water with the calories taken out, and MyPlate counts a cup of raw chopped celery as a full cup toward the vegetable group.
Sodium is the surprise in the other direction. Raw celery has 80 mg per 100 g before anything is done to it, which is high for a plain vegetable, though only 4% of the 2,300 mg Daily Value in a cup. Boil it in salted water and the record jumps to 327 mg per 100 g. A 150 g cup of that is 491 mg, or 21% of the day, which is our own scaling from the USDA 100 g figure rather than a USDA serving. In salt terms, roughly a fifth of a teaspoon of table salt.
None of that makes the vegetable a problem. It does mean the dip decides the plate. Celery is 6 calories a stalk, and whatever sits in the bowl next to it is where the calories in that snack actually live.
How does celery compare?
| Vegetable | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celery, raw | 14 kcal | 100 g | 14 kcal |
| Iceberg lettuce, raw | 14 kcal | 100 g | 14 kcal |
| White icicle radish, raw | 14 kcal | 100 g | 14 kcal |
| New Zealand spinach, raw | 14 kcal | 100 g | 14 kcal |
All four land on exactly 14 calories per 100 g, so there is no lightest one to crown. The separation is in what you get for those calories: celery has the least protein of the four at 0.69 g per 100 g, against 0.9 g for iceberg, 1.1 g for the radish and 1.5 g for New Zealand spinach.
Our take: pick celery for the structure, not for the calorie saving, because the calorie saving over its neighbors is zero. It is the one on this list you can hold, dip and eat as a snack instead of a salad, and that is worth more in a food log than a fraction of a gram of protein. If you want the same 14 calories to do nutritional work, New Zealand spinach is carrying more than twice celery's protein at the same cost.
Most popular celery 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) |
|---|---|
| Dandy Celery Sticks | 18 cal |
| Marketside Celery Sticks | 11 cal |
| Dandy Organic Celery | 18 cal |
| Ocean Mist Farms Celery | 14 cal |
| Pacific Celery Hearts | 12 cal |
| Pacific Celery Sticks | 15 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Celery FAQs
How many calories are in one stalk of celery?
A medium stalk 7-1/2 to 8 inches long weighs 40 g and holds 6 calories. A large stalk of 11 to 12 inches weighs 64 g and holds 9. Both come straight from the USDA household measures on the raw celery record, so no scaling is involved.
How many calories in a cup of chopped celery?
One cup of chopped celery weighs 101 g and comes to 14 calories, the same number as 100 g, because a cup of chopped stalks lands within a gram of it. That cup carries 3.0 g of carbohydrate, 1.6 g of fiber, 0.7 g of protein and 81 mg of sodium.
Is celery a negative-calorie food?
No. Celery is 14 calories per 100 g, and USDA does not publish the energy your body spends chewing and digesting it, so nothing can be netted to zero from the record. It is very light, which is a different and more useful claim than negative. A full cup still logs as 14 calories.
How many carbs are in celery?
Raw celery has 2.97 g of carbohydrate per 100 g, which is 3.0 g in a 101 g cup and 1% of the Daily Value. Of that, 1.6 g is fiber and 1.34 g is naturally occurring sugar. Pickled celery is the outlier at 7.61 g per 100 g.
How much fiber is in celery?
Celery has 1.6 g of fiber per 100 g, so a 101 g cup gives 1.6 g and hits 6% of the 28 g Daily Value. That is more than the 1% the same cup returns for carbohydrate or protein, and only potassium matches it on the raw record.
How many calories in celery juice?
One cup of celery juice, 236 g, is 40 calories. The juice record runs 17 calories per 100 g, and the calories climb only because you drink far more grams than you would chew: 236 g against the 101 g in a cup of chopped stalks.
Does cooking celery change its calories?
Yes. Boiled and drained celery is 18 calories per 100 g against 14 raw, because boiling drives off water and concentrates what is left. Celery cooked with fat is 42 calories per 100 g, exactly triple the raw figure, and that jump is 2.9 g of added fat.
Is celery high in sodium?
Raw celery is 80 mg of sodium per 100 g, or 81 mg in a cup, which is 4% of the Daily Value: high for a vegetable, low for a meal. Boiled in salted water it becomes 327 mg per 100 g, and a 150 g cup of that is 491 mg, or 21%.
Similar foods
- Lettuce — 10 cal per cup shredded
- Cucumber — 45 cal per whole cucumber
- Pico de gallo — 41 cal per cup
- Mushrooms — 15 cal per cup sliced
- Salad — 23 cal per side salad
- Cabbage — 22 cal per cup chopped
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