Fresh Cherries - How Many Calories?

In one sense, fresh, sweet cherries are like potato chips -- you can't eat just one. It's been a good summer for cherry fans, crop yields exploded with sweet cherry harvests up 52 percent from last year. Often priced upwards of $5.00 a pound, a luscious bowl of dark cherries is a pricey treat. But when you see $2.99 a pound, suddenly you're grabbing a bulging bag of nature's candy from the produce aisle.

But before you start spitting pits from a big bowl of fresh cherries, be aware of the caloric cost. How many calories in a single, sweet cherry?

As you pop those cherries in your mouth, should you count in twos, threes, fours or fives? One sweet cherry has 5 calories. One cup contains about 90 calories, 3 grams of fiber, is a good source of vitamin C, and it's fat/sodium-free, too. Not bad if you're just grabbing a handful -- not a bowlful.