Vitamins in sweet cherry

Cherries are categorized as ‘sweet’ or ‘sour’ according to their flavor. Sweet cherries are usually eaten fresh. They can be used to top ice cream, yogurt, or pancakes and waffles, or they can be tossed into a fruit salad.

Cherry production is limited to temperature regions that experience moderately cold winter temperatures as the cherry tree requires a dormancy period each year that begins with defoliation in the autumn.

Both sweet and sour cherries are good sources of vitamin C. According to National Cancer Institute in 2004; sweet cherry contains important amounts of carotenoids, mainly beta-carotene (38ug/100g) and lutein/zeaxanthin (85 ug/100 g).

Zeaxanthin is a constitutional isomer of lutein. Lutein is the dominant xanthophylls that are the primary human sources of carotenoids.

In sweet cherry, the main vitamins are vitamin C (7-50 mg/100g) followed by vitamin E (0.07 mg/100 g) and vitamin K (2 ug/100 g).
Vitamins in sweet cherry