How many calories are in a chocolate covered strawberry?
One large chocolate-covered strawberry weighs about 25 g and carries 33 calories. Per 100 g the dipped fruit runs 133 calories, nearly four times the 36 of a plain raw berry. That gap is the whole story of this dessert: the strawberry underneath is nearly free, and the shell around it is not.
You'd need to walk about 7 minutes to burn the 33 calories in one large chocolate-covered strawberry (25 g).
How long does it take to burn off 33 kcal of chocolate covered strawberry?
One large chocolate-covered strawberry (25 g) is 33 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 33 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 7 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 4 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 5 min |
| Jogging | 4 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 7 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 (25 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Chocolate covered strawberry quick facts
- US servings, from one berry to a gift box
- The strawberry without the chocolate
- Store-bought pouches, bites and dipped nuts
- The row to watch is saturated fat
- How does a chocolate covered strawberry compare?
- Most popular chocolate covered strawberry brands
- FAQ
Chocolate covered strawberry quick facts
USDA does not publish a row named for this exact candy. The closest and most honest match is the FNDDS entry 2709295, "Fruit, chocolate covered" — fresh fruit with a chocolate coating on it, which is precisely what is sitting in the paper cup in front of you. The branded alternatives are packaged dippers and candy bites, and the raw-berry row is the fruit with nothing on it, so neither one describes the thing people are actually counting.
The 25 g piece below is the large bakery-style berry: roughly 18 g of strawberry plus 6 to 7 g of chocolate. That weight is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, because FNDDS publishes no household measure for this record.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 large strawberry (25 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 133 | 33 | — |
| Total fat | 6.69 g | 1.7 g | 2% |
| Saturated fat | 3.86 g | 1.0 g | 5% |
| Carbohydrate | 20.12 g | 5.0 g | 2% |
| Dietary fiber | 2.7 g | 0.7 g | 2% |
| Total sugars | 15.65 g | 3.9 g | — |
| Protein | 1.41 g | 0.4 g | 1% |
| Sodium | 2 mg | 1 mg | 0% |
% 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 →
Two label rows are missing on purpose. USDA does not publish added sugars or trans fat for this record, so rather than guess at them we left them out. Cholesterol is 0 mg either way, and potassium comes to 51 mg per piece, 205 mg per 100 g — about 1% of the Daily Value in one berry, courtesy of the fruit rather than the coating. Total sugars have no Daily Value at all, which is why that cell stays empty; the FDA's Daily Value reference sets one for added sugars only.
US servings, from one berry to a gift box
Nobody eats these by the 100 g. They arrive as one berry on a plate, three on a dessert tray, or six in a box with a ribbon on it.
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 37 kcal |
| One medium dipped strawberry | 18 g | 24 kcal |
| One large dipped strawberry | 25 g | 33 kcal |
| Three pieces, a small plate | 75 g | 100 kcal |
| Six-piece gift box | 150 g | 200 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 133 kcal |
Every line except the last one is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving — the piece weights come from the raw-strawberry household measures (medium 12 g, large 18 g) plus the 6 to 7 g the chocolate adds. That matters more than it sounds. Berry size in a gift box swings by a factor of two, so a box of six small ones is closer to 150 calories than 200, and a box of jumbo berries can pass it.
The number worth memorizing is three pieces for 100 calories. It is the cleanest round figure this food produces, and it makes the mental math for a dessert tray trivial.
The strawberry without the chocolate
Strip the coating off and the food changes category. The FNDDS row for plain raw strawberries is 36 calories per 100 g — a full cup, 150 g of them, is 54 calories, less than two dipped berries.
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate covered strawberry | 133 kcal | one large piece, 25 g | 33 kcal |
| Strawberries, raw (FNDDS) | 36 kcal | 1 cup, 150 g | 54 kcal |
| Strawberries, raw (SR Legacy) | 32 kcal | 1 cup halves, 152 g | 49 kcal |
| Strawberries, frozen, unsweetened | 35 kcal | 100 g | 35 kcal |
Here is the piece of arithmetic almost nobody runs. An 18 g strawberry, before it is dipped, is about 6 calories. The finished large piece is 33. So the chocolate contributes roughly 27 of the 33 — more than four fifths of the dessert, and more than four times the fruit it is wrapped around. When people describe these as "a healthy dessert," they are describing the 6 calories and paying for the 27.
The two raw-berry rows differ only by USDA release, not by preparation: 36 versus 32 calories per 100 g is the same fruit measured in different editions, which is why we quote the newer FNDDS figure in the text. Freezing changes almost nothing when the berries go in unsweetened — 35 calories per 100 g, the water stays put. Sweetened frozen sliced strawberries are a different animal at 96 calories per 100 g, but that jump is syrup, not chocolate.
Store-bought pouches, bites and dipped nuts
Packaged versions run heavier per gram than the fresh-dipped kind, because they lose water and gain shell.
| Product | Per 100 g | Label serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh-dipped (USDA generic) | 133 kcal | one large piece, 25 g | 33 kcal |
| Dole dark chocolate covered strawberry halves dippers | 171 kcal | 1 pouch, 35 g | 60 kcal |
| Nutheads chocolate covered strawberry bites | 450 kcal | 7 pieces, 40 g | 180 kcal |
| Chocolate covered peanuts | 556 kcal | 1 piece, 4 g | 22 kcal |
| Chocolate covered almonds | 560 kcal | 1 piece, 4 g | 22 kcal |
The Dole pouch is the useful one for a lunchbox: 60 calories, sealed, and closer to fresh than the bites are. The Nutheads bites at 450 calories per 100 g are candy built on dried fruit, so seven of them cost 180 — five and a half fresh-dipped berries for the same money.
The dipped nuts are in the table for scale, not because you would confuse them. One chocolate-covered peanut is 22 calories against 33 for a whole dipped strawberry, and the peanut weighs 4 g. Per gram it is more than four times as expensive. A 55 g handful of them is about 306 calories by our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure — half again more than a six-piece box of berries that looks three times the size.
The row to watch is saturated fat
Per piece, nothing on this label is alarming: 33 calories, 1 mg of sodium, 5% of the Daily Value for saturated fat. The trouble is that these are never eaten one at a time.
Six pieces, the standard small gift box, come to 200 calories and about 5.8 g of saturated fat — 29% of the Daily Value in one sitting, again our own scaling of the USDA 100 g row. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans put saturated fat under 10% of daily calories, and a gift box quietly claims more than a quarter of that budget while reading as fruit.
Sugar behaves differently. Six pieces carry about 23.5 g of total sugars, but USDA does not split that record into natural fruit sugar and sugar in the coating, so we cannot tell you how much of it counts as added — and total sugars are not measured against the added-sugars Daily Value in any case. What we can say is where the fiber comes from: 2.7 g per 100 g here versus 1.8 g per 100 g in plain raw strawberries, so the strawberry is doing that work, not the chocolate.
If you are choosing on the strength of the fruit, MyPlate's fruit guidance is worth a look — a cup of plain strawberries counts toward the fruit group at 54 calories, and dipping them does not disqualify the berry, it just adds 27 calories a piece to the ticket.
How does a chocolate covered strawberry compare?
| Food | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate covered strawberry | 133 kcal | one large piece, 25 g | 33 kcal |
| Strawberries, raw | 36 kcal | one berry, 18 g | 6 kcal |
| Chocolate covered peanuts | 556 kcal | one piece, 4 g | 22 kcal |
| Chocolate covered almonds | 560 kcal | one piece, 4 g | 22 kcal |
Our take: among the chocolate-covered things USDA tracks, the strawberry is by far the cheapest per gram — 133 calories per 100 g against 556 and 560 for the nuts, under a quarter of either. Water is doing that, and water is exactly what makes a dessert feel like more food than it costs. For weight loss, three dipped berries at 100 calories is one of the better dessert trades available, and a plain cup of strawberries at 54 is better still. For satiety, none of these fill anybody up; the protein is 0.4 g a piece. Buy them for the pleasure, count them by the plate, and treat the six-piece box as a 200-calorie dessert rather than a bowl of fruit.
Most popular chocolate covered strawberry 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) |
|---|---|
| Nutheads Chocolate Covered Strawberry Bites | 450 cal |
| Dole Dark Chocolate Covered Strawberry Halves Dippers | 171 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Chocolate covered strawberry FAQs
How many calories are in one chocolate covered strawberry?
A large chocolate-covered strawberry weighs about 25 g and carries 33 calories, using the USDA figure of 133 calories per 100 g. A smaller berry, closer to 18 g dipped, lands near 24. The berry itself is only about 6 of that; the chocolate shell brings the rest.
How many calories in 6 chocolate covered strawberries?
Six pieces weigh about 150 g and come to 200 calories, our own arithmetic from the USDA 133-calories-per-100-g figure. That is the standard small gift box. It also carries about 5.8 g of saturated fat, 29% of the Daily Value, and roughly 23.5 g of total sugars.
How many carbs are in a chocolate covered strawberry?
One large piece has 5.0 g of carbohydrate, 2% of the Daily Value, and 20.12 g sit in every 100 g. Of those 5.0 g, 3.9 g is sugar and 0.7 g is fiber. Three pieces put you at 15.1 g, still a small number for a dessert.
How much sugar is in chocolate covered strawberries?
A large piece holds 3.9 g of total sugars, and the USDA record lists 15.65 g per 100 g. Total sugars carry no Daily Value, so no percentage belongs in that row. The record does not split fruit sugar from the sugar in the coating, so we cannot say how much is added.
Are dark chocolate covered strawberries lower in calories than milk chocolate?
USDA publishes one generic record for chocolate-covered fruit, 133 calories per 100 g, with no separate milk and dark rows, so the record cannot tell the two apart. The Dole dark chocolate strawberry halves run 171 calories per 100 g, which is 60 calories per 35 g pouch.
Are chocolate covered strawberries healthy?
One piece is 33 calories, 0.7 g of fiber, 1 mg of sodium and 1.0 g of saturated fat, 5% of the Daily Value. That is a light dessert by any measure. Six in one sitting is a different question: 200 calories and 29% of the saturated fat Daily Value.
Do chocolate covered strawberries have fiber?
Yes, 2.7 g per 100 g, which works out to 0.7 g in one large piece, 2% of the Daily Value. That fiber is the strawberry's doing, not the chocolate's; plain raw strawberries carry 1.8 g per 100 g in the same USDA release. Six pieces give about 4.1 g.
How many calories in a Dole chocolate covered strawberry pouch?
One Dole dark chocolate covered strawberry halves pouch is 35 g and 60 calories, at 171 calories per 100 g. That is heavier per gram than the generic USDA record's 133, since dried-down halves carry proportionally more coating than a freshly dipped whole berry does.
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- Steak — 368 cal per regular steak
Count it without the math
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