Sweet cherry’s water soluble dry matter content is between 10-20%. A significant proportion of the water-soluble dry matter comes from soluble carbohydrates, mono-and disaccharides (glucose, fructose and sucrose), which are main contributors to the energy content.
Fresh cherries are 80 to 84% water, Fresh cherries contains 70 calories (kcal) per 100 g. When cherries are canned in a syrup, the calories of the fruit per serving increase.
Sour cherries contain vitamin A and C, copper and manganese and sweet cherries have the same nutrition, with a little less vitamin A. Sweet cherries possess 110 IU of
vitamin A.
Two third total carbohydrates in sweet cherry is fructose (4.2 g/100 g) and this is significantly higher than glucose (2.2 g/100 g).
Sweet cherry also contains sugar alcohol, sorbitol (.76 g/100 g) which has a laxative effect.
Nutrition of sweet cherry
