Cherry
Small sweet or sour stone fruit eaten fresh, cooked or preserved.
About Cherry
Cherry is a small stone fruit eaten fresh, cooked, dried, canned, or preserved. The name includes sweet and sour cherries, whose species, cultivars, colours, and uses differ. Cherries are used in desserts, sauces, drinks, preserves, and savoury dishes as well as eaten out of hand.
Sweet cherries are usually juicy and mellow, while sour cherries have a sharper acidity and are often sweetened when cooked. Fresh flesh is tender and succulent; freezing, cooking, drying, or preserving softens it or makes it denser and chewier, depending on the process.
Cherries are generally round to heart-shaped, with smooth skins, a stem, and one hard central stone. Skin and flesh may be red, dark purple, yellow, or pale pink. They are sold whole or pitted, fresh or processed, and pitting changes their form without changing the fruit’s basic identity.
- Ingredient type
- whole food
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Local names for cherry
Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.
cherry
cerise
cereza
さくらんぼ
sakuranbo
CHERRIES DRIED
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Cherries in syrup
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Cherries, canned
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Cherries, flesh and skin, raw
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Cherries, flesh and skin, raw, weighed with stones
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Cherries, frozen
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Cherries, maraschino
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Cherries, raw
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Cherries, sour, canned, water pack, drained
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Cherries, sour, red, canned, extra heavy syrup pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sour, red, canned, heavy syrup pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sour, red, canned, light syrup pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sour, red, canned, water pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sour, red, frozen, unsweetened (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
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Cherries, sour, red, raw
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Cherries, stewed with sugar
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Cherries, stewed with sugar, weighed with stones
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Cherries, stewed without sugar
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Cherries, stewed without sugar, weighed with stones
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Cherries, sweet, canned, extra heavy syrup pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sweet, canned, juice pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sweet, canned, light syrup pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sweet, canned, pitted, heavy syrup pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sweet, canned, pitted, heavy syrup, drained
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Cherries, sweet, canned, water pack, solids and liquids
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Cherries, sweet, dark red, raw
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Cherries, sweet, raw
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Cherries, tart, dried, sweetened (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
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cherry in rum-flavored syrup
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cherry in syrup
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Cherry, black, canned in syrup
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Cherry, black, canned in syrup, drained
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Cherry, Canned, Solid, Dark
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Cherry, Canned, Solid, Red
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Cherry, pitted, frozen
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Crisp, cherry
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Dried cherries
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Fresh cherries
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Pitted cherries
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Pitted cherry
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RED CHERRIES
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white cherry
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Cherry nutrition & diet
Cherry nutritional value
Cherry, raw
Per 100 g of the edible portion in the stated food form.
- Calories
- 73.6kcal
- Protein
- 1.1g
- Carbs
- 15.2g
- Fat
- 0.0g
Reference values apply to the named food form, not every preparation, variety or brand. © Food Standards Australia New Zealand. AFCD Release 3, food F002522. Available carbohydrate excludes sugar alcohols; energy converted from kJ to kcal (÷4.184). Australian data may not be appropriate for use in other countries. There are limitations associated with food composition databases. Food composition data used in the database or databases may represent an average of the nutrient content of a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time. The nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially between batches and brands because of a number of factors, including changes in season, processing practices and ingredient source, and methods of calculation. Data licensed under the FSANZ Data User Licence Agreement, based on CC BY-SA 3.0 AU: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science-data/monitoringnutrients/afcd/datauserlicenceagreement.
Portions & preparation
Match the reference to the stated cherry variety and edible flesh, distinguishing fresh, cooked, dried, canned, frozen, juiced, or preserved forms. Remove pits before assessing the edible portion. Syrup, sugar, alcohol, dairy, pastry, or other recipe ingredients should be recorded separately when cherries appear in prepared foods.
Compare the right form: Use a reference for the identified cherry variety and matching edible pitted form, such as fresh, frozen, cooked, dried, canned, or juiced.
Diet considerations
Cherries are plant-derived fruit. Plain fresh or prepared cherries differ from products containing dairy, gelatin, alcohol, or other animal additions. Pies, pastries, and coated desserts may include wheat or other cereal ingredients. Dried, candied, canned, and juiced forms have different portion-dependent carbohydrate patterns from whole fresh fruit.
AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.
Dietary compatibility
- VeganNot established
- VegetarianNot established
- PescatarianNot established
- KetoNot established
- PaleoNot established
- Low-carbNot established
- HalalNot established
- KosherNot established
What these diet assessments mean
- Vegan · Not established
- The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
- Vegetarian · Not established
- The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
- Pescatarian · Not established
- The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
- Keto · Not established
- A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
- Paleo · Not established
- The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
- Low-carb · Not established
- A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
- Halal · Not established
- Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
- Kosher · Not established
- Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.
For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.
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Sources & review
Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3, 2025 — Cherry, raw ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.
Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.
The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.
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