I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE cherries. How about you? My husband came home recently (can you tell he does the grocery shopping? Awesome, huh?) with a 3 pound container of cherries. Oh my! I love cherries. I think they are beautiful.
I had a difficult time photographing them though because they kept disappearing. Okay, I admit, they disappeared into my mouth. YUM!
I was curious about cherries so I went looking around and I found out that tart cherries help relieve gout pain. They have compounds that help with the inflammation, the vitamin C and potassium help with lowering the uric acid levels.
Each place I looked had slightly different numbers on a cup of cherries, so here is what I ended up with
- Calories: Between 75 and 100
- Fat: Between 0 and 1.5 grams
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
- Carbohydrates: Between 18.73 and 23.2 grams
- Fiber: Between 2 and 3 grams
- Sugars: Between 15 and 18.6 grams
- Protein: Between 1.24 and 1.5 grams
I would think it depends on the sweetness. The sweeter they are the higher the calories, carbs, and sugar. These numbers are based on raw cherries, not ones cooked into a pie or a cobbler. While I LOVE cherries, I do not like them cooked or dried. Do you?
Some places list cherries on the same list as blueberries and cranberries, you know, the “Superfruits”, but some do not. I guess we will see as more research is done.
How do you feel about cherries?
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