How many calories in a gala apple?
A medium gala apple weighs 172 g and carries 98 calories. Half of one is 49. A cup of slices comes to 62, and per 100 g a gala runs 57 calories. The calories in a gala apple hardly move per gram from one variety to the next — what moves is the apple itself, because gala is one of the smaller ones in the bin.
You'd need to walk about 20 minutes to burn the 98 calories in a medium apple (172 g).
How long does it take to burn off a gala apple?
A medium apple (172 g) is 98 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 98 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 20 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 12 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 14 min |
| Jogging | 12 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 (172 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Gala apple quick facts
- US serving sizes, from one ounce to a large apple
- A cup of slices is not an apple
- Why USDA has two different calorie counts for a gala
- Peeled, baked, dried: the same apple, three different foods
- How does a gala apple compare?
- Most popular gala apple brands
- FAQ
Gala apple quick facts
These numbers are for a raw gala apple with the skin on, from SR Legacy 168204 — the USDA record that is specific to the gala variety and that also carries USDA's own household weights. The serving column is one medium apple, 172 g.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 medium apple (172 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 57 | 98 | — |
| Total fat | 0.12 g | 0.21 g | <1% |
| Carbohydrate | 13.68 g | 23.5 g | 9% |
| Dietary fiber | 2.3 g | 4.0 g | 14% |
| Total sugars | 10.37 g | 17.8 g | — |
| Protein | 0.25 g | 0.43 g | <1% |
| Sodium | 1 mg | 1.7 mg | <1% |
| Potassium | 108 mg | 186 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 →
Three lines you would expect on a packaged label are absent, and all three are absent for the same reason: USDA does not report them for this record. There is no saturated fat row (with 0.12 g of total fat in 100 g of apple, any saturated share is a trace either way), no cholesterol row, and no added sugars row. The last one is not an omission at all. An apple picked off a tree has nothing added to declare, so the 17.8 g of sugars in a medium gala is fruit sugar, all of it.
Two rows deserve a second look. Fiber is 4.0 g in one apple, which is 14% of the FDA Daily Value of 28 g. Carbohydrate is 23.5 g, only 9% of its 275 g Daily Value. For a food that plenty of people log as if it were candy, a gala hands back a bigger share of the day's fiber than of the day's carbohydrate. Potassium adds 186 mg on top, 4% of the day.
Sodium is the row nobody needs: 1.7 mg in a whole apple, against a 2,300 mg Daily Value. You would have to eat well over a thousand apples to reach it.
US serving sizes, from one ounce to a large apple
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28 g | 16 |
| ½ medium apple | 86 g | 49 |
| 1 cup, sliced | 109 g | 62 |
| 1 small apple | 157 g | 89 |
| 1 medium apple | 172 g | 98 |
| 1 large apple | 200 g | 114 |
| 100 g | 100 g | 57 |
Four of those weights come straight out of USDA's portion file for 168204: small at 157 g, medium at 172 g, large at 200 g, and a cup of slices at 109 g. The other two are our own arithmetic on USDA's per-100 g figure rather than USDA portions — the half is the medium cut down the core, 86 g, and the ounce is 28 g.
The useful part is the range. Small to large is 89 to 114 calories — a 25-calorie spread across every apple you are likely to pick up. That is smaller than the error in most people's eyeballing of a chicken breast, which is a decent argument for logging apples as "one medium" and spending the effort somewhere it matters.
A cup of slices is not an apple
Cutting an apple changes nothing about it. A medium gala is 98 calories in wedges, in slices, or whole in your hand. The measure is where logs go wrong.
USDA's cup of gala slices weighs 109 g. A medium apple weighs 172 g. Slice one apple, tip it into a cup, and it overflows — you have about a cup and a half. So the person who eats a whole apple and taps "apple, 1 cup sliced" into a food log records 62 calories instead of 98. That is 36 calories missing, more than a third of the fruit, from a single unit choice.
Half an apple is the other unit worth having. At 86 g it is 49 calories with roughly 2.0 g of fiber, and it is the portion that actually happens: half into the oatmeal, half onto the cheese board, half handed to somebody else. Logging it as a half beats rounding it up to a whole apple or forgetting it entirely.
Why USDA has two different calorie counts for a gala
Search FoodData Central for gala apples and you get more than one answer, which is worth explaining rather than hiding.
The Foundation record is the newer laboratory analysis, and it publishes two competing energy figures for the same fruit — 61 calories per 100 g by one calculation method and 55 by another — without choosing between them. It also carries no household portions at all, so there is no way to get from it to "one apple" without borrowing a gram weight from a different record and blending two sources into one number.
That is why this page leads with the SR Legacy figure of 57. It is variety-specific, it comes with USDA's own small, medium, large and cup weights, and it sits between the Foundation record's own two numbers. The more detailed edition of that same Foundation sample reports 11.83 g of sugars and 2.11 g of fiber per 100 g, close enough to the SR Legacy 10.37 g and 2.3 g that the disagreement is about method, not about apples.
For context, the generic Apples, raw, with skin record — every variety averaged together — comes in at 52 calories per 100 g. Gala sits 5 calories above the average apple. USDA's survey database, the one behind national dietary statistics, uses 61 for a plain raw apple. All three describe real apples; none of them is 20% away from the others, and none of them is worth a second of anxiety.
Peeled, baked, dried: the same apple, three different foods
| Version | Per 100 g | Serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw, with skin (this page) | 57 | 1 medium (172 g) | 98 |
| Raw, peeled | 48 | 1 medium peeled (161 g) | 77 |
| Peeled and boiled | 53 | 100 g | 53 |
| Baked | 113 | 1 apple, any size (210 g) | 237 |
| Dried | 243 | 1 cup (90 g) | 219 |
| Gala applesauce (label) | 64 | ⅔ cup (140 g) | 90 |
Peeling is the row people read backwards. Take the skin off a 172 g apple and you save roughly 15 calories. You also give up about 1.7 g of fiber, because fiber falls from 2.3 g per 100 g to 1.3 g the moment the peel goes in the trash. Fifteen calories for 1.7 g of fiber, 6% of the day's Daily Value, is a bad trade in a food whose fiber was the best thing on its label. USDA keeps no peeled gala line, so that row is the generic peeled apple.
Boiling a peeled apple lands at 53 calories per 100 g. There is no household portion for that record, so it is given per 100 g only rather than invented.
The baked apple is not really fruit any more. USDA's survey recipe includes fat and sugar, which is how one 210 g baked apple reaches 237 calories — two and a half fresh galas, in an object the size of one.
Dried apple is the sharpest jump. At 243 calories per 100 g, a cup of dried slices (90 g) is 219 calories, more than two whole fresh medium galas at 196, and it takes up about the same space in a bowl. A single dried slice is 19 calories, which is fine; the cup is where the water that used to fill you up has been removed. And a labeled gala applesauce, at 64 calories per 100 g, is 90 in a ⅔-cup serving — a different food again, not a fruit you can bite.
How does a gala apple compare?
| Apple | Per 100 g | 1 medium | Calories | Carbs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gala (this page) | 57 | 172 g | 98 | 23.5 g |
| Fuji | 63 | 192 g | 121 | 29.2 g |
| Granny Smith | 58 | 167 g | 97 | 22.7 g |
| Red Delicious | 59 | 212 g | 125 | 29.8 g |
| Golden Delicious | 57 | 169 g | 96 | 23.0 g |
All five are USDA SR Legacy records for raw apples with the skin, so this is a fair fight. Per 100 g they cover six calories, 57 to 63 — a gap narrower than the rounding on a nutrition label. Per apple they cover 96 to 125, a 30% spread.
Every calorie of that spread is size. USDA's medium red delicious weighs 212 g; its medium gala weighs 172 g. That is 40 g more fruit, not more sweetness. Variety-by-variety calorie charts are, almost entirely, size charts wearing a disguise.
Our take: if you want the smallest number per whole apple, golden delicious, granny smith and gala finish within two calories of each other at 96, 97 and 98, and they win on being smaller objects rather than lighter food. If you want the most apple for your calories, red delicious gives you 212 g for 125 and will keep you busy longer. And if fiber is what you are after, the variety is not the lever at all — the peel is, and it costs nothing to leave on.
Most popular gala apple 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) |
|---|---|
| Good 4 U Fresh Fruit Gala Apples | 52 cal |
| Nature's Promise Gala Apples | 49 cal |
| Ahold Gala Apples | 52 cal |
| Wegmans Gala Apples | 52 cal |
| Open Acres Gala Apples | 52 cal |
| Weis Gala Apples | 54 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Gala apple FAQs
How many calories are in a gala apple?
98 calories for one medium gala apple, which USDA weighs at 172 g, eaten raw with the skin on. That works out to 57 calories per 100 g, with 23.5 g of carbohydrate, 4.0 g of fiber, 17.8 g of natural sugars and 186 mg of potassium. Half an apple is 49.
How many calories are in a large gala apple?
114 calories for USDA's large gala at 200 g. A small one at 157 g is 89, and the medium at 172 g is 98. The whole small-to-large range is 25 calories, so the size you grabbed matters far less than most calorie charts suggest.
How much sugar is in a gala apple?
17.8 g of total sugars in a medium 172 g apple, or 10.37 g per 100 g. None of it is added sugar — USDA reports no added sugars row for raw fruit, because there is nothing to add. Total sugars carry no Daily Value on a US label, which is why the percentage column is blank.
How many carbs are in a gala apple?
23.5 g of carbohydrate in a medium gala, 9% of the 275 g Daily Value. Of that, 4.0 g is fiber and 17.8 g is sugars. Per 100 g the figure is 13.68 g. A cup of slices (109 g) comes to about 14.9 g of carbohydrate.
How much fiber is in a gala apple?
4.0 g in a medium 172 g apple, which is 14% of the 28 g Daily Value, from 2.3 g per 100 g. That is a higher share of the day than the apple's carbohydrate provides. Peel it and fiber drops to 1.3 g per 100 g, so roughly 1.7 g leaves with the skin.
Gala or Fuji — which has fewer calories?
Gala, on both counts here. Per 100 g gala is 57 calories against fuji's 63. Per apple the gap widens to 98 against 121, because USDA's medium fuji weighs 192 g and its medium gala 172 g. The difference is mostly the size of the fruit, not its sweetness.
Are gala apples good for weight loss?
A medium gala is 98 calories with 4.0 g of fiber, which is 14% of a day's fiber for under 5% of a 2,000-calorie day. Whole fruit is what federal advice points to, at MyPlate and in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Dried apple is the form to watch: 219 calories a cup.
How many calories are in a gala apple without the skin?
77 calories for a peeled medium apple at 161 g, since peeled raw apple is 48 calories per 100 g against 57 with the skin. USDA has no peeled gala record, so that is the generic peeled figure. Peeling saves about 15 calories on a 172 g apple and costs about 1.7 g of fiber.
Similar foods
- Fruit cup — 89 cal per cup
- Mango — 99 cal per cup pieces
- Apple — 95 cal per medium apple
- Envy apple — 95 cal per medium apple
- Raspberries — 64 cal per cup
- Bartlett Pear — 112 cal per medium pear
Count it without the math
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