Cherries, raw
Checked by us One serving: 140 g · 89 kcal
Some vitamin C.
Nothing to watch for most people so far.
Worth knowing for some people: choking risk under age 4; oral allergy to Rosaceae fruit.
Good for
How we counted this
What one serving (140 g) gives you.
Your body needs enough of each of these. Past enough, more doesn’t help. Amounts are what the food databases list, not what your body absorbs, unless a row says it was measured.
The words: “A lot” means one serving gives 20% or more of Health Canada’s daily amount, “Some” 10% to 19%, “A little” 2% to 9%, “Almost none” under 2%. Strongest word first; within a word, protein and fibre lead, then the biggest share. ?
A milligram (mg) is a thousandth of a gram, and a microgram (µg) a thousandth of a milligram: 1,000 µg make 1 mg.
- Some
Vitamin C
Your body makes collagen with it, which wounds need to heal. It also helps you absorb iron from plants.
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14.5 mg in one serving: 16% of the 90 mg a day men need, 19% of the 75 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin C fact sheet for health professionals
21 more nutrients at a little or less
- A little
Potassium
Your nerves, muscles and kidneys need it to work.
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321 mg in one serving: 9% of the 3,400 mg a day men need, 12% of the 2,600 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, potassium fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Fibre
Keeps your gut moving.
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2.94 g in one serving: 8% of the 38 g a day men need, 12% of the 25 g women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. Institute of Medicine 2005, Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids
- A little
Vitamin B6
Helps you use protein, and your brain needs it to make its chemical messengers.
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0.07 mg in one serving: 5% of the 1.3 mg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin B6 fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Magnesium
Your muscles and nerves need it to work.
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17 mg in one serving: 4% of the 400 mg a day men need, 5% of the 310 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, magnesium fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Riboflavin (B2)
Your cells use it to make energy and handle fats. It also helps turn tryptophan into niacin and activate vitamin B6.
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0.05 mg in one serving: 4% of the 1.3 mg a day men need, 5% of the 1.1 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, riboflavin fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Thiamin (B1)
Your cells use it to get energy from food, and so to grow and work.
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0.04 mg in one serving: 3% of the 1.2 mg a day men need, 4% of the 1.1 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, thiamin fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Niacin (B3, niacin equivalents)
More than 400 of your enzymes need it to work.
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0.43 mg in one serving: 3% of the 16 mg a day men need, 3% of the 14 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, niacin fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Protein
Your muscles, and every other tissue, are built and repaired from it.
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1.46 g in one serving: 3% of the 56 g a day men need, 3% of the 46 g women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. Institute of Medicine 2005, Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids
- A little
Vitamin K1
Your blood needs it to clot.
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2.94 µg in one serving: 2% of the 120 µg a day men need, 3% of the 90 µg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin K fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Omega-3: ALA
The one omega-3 your body can’t make: it must come from food. Your cells build it into their membranes and burn it for energy.
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36.4 mg in one serving: 2% of the 1,600 mg a day men need, 3% of the 1,100 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, omega-3 fatty acids fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Calcium
Builds your bones and teeth.
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17.2 mg in one serving: 2% of the 1,000 mg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, calcium fact sheet for health professionals
- A little
Choline
Your cells need it for their membranes, and to make acetylcholine, a messenger for memory, mood and muscle control.
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8.54 mg in one serving: 2% of the 550 mg a day men need, 2% of the 425 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, choline fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Folate
Your body needs it to make DNA and to divide new cells.
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5.6 µg in one serving: 1% of the 400 µg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, folate fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Zinc
Your immune system and healing wounds depend on it.
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0.09 mg in one serving: 1% of the 11 mg a day men need, 1% of the 8 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, zinc fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Iron
Carries oxygen in your blood.
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0.15 mg in one serving: 2% of the 8 mg a day men need, 1% of the 18 mg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, iron fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Vitamin E
Shields the fats in your cells from damage; your immune system uses it too.
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0.1 mg in one serving: 1% of the 15 mg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin E fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Vitamin A
Your eyes need it to see in dim light.
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Getting enough matters; more than enough doesn’t sharpen your sight.
4.2 µg in one serving: under 1% of the 900 µg a day men need, 1% of the 700 µg women need. The word follows the smaller share, which is the share of the higher amount. ?
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin A fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Omega-3: EPA + DHA
Long-chain omega-3s, built into your cell membranes. DHA is concentrated in your brain and retinas.
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0 mg in one serving: under 1% of the 250 mg a day.
Health Canada sets no daily amount for these fats, so the daily figure here is the European Food Safety Authority’s.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, omega-3 fatty acids fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Selenium
Your thyroid uses it to make its hormones.
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0 µg in one serving: under 1% of the 55 µg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, selenium fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Vitamin B12
Your body needs it to make red blood cells and keep nerves working.
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0 µg in one serving: under 1% of the 2.4 µg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin B12 fact sheet for health professionals
- Almost none
Vitamin D
Your body needs it to absorb calcium and keep your bones hard.
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Your skin also makes it in sunlight, so food is only one of its sources.
0 µg in one serving: under 1% of the 15 µg a day.
Source: How much of it gets in hasn’t been measured for this food yet. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, vitamin D fact sheet for health professionals
Watch out
How we counted this
Checked for nickel, aluminum, cadmium, glyphosate residues and lead: fine at normal amounts.
Nickel
Nothing to watchYou’d need more than 100 servings in a day of this food alone to use up what the highest average adult intake we found leaves under the limit.
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One serving carries 2.39 µg
How we got this
The highest average adult intake we found already takes up about 26% of the limit. One serving a day fits in the room left.
Counted from zero, with no allowance for what adults already take in from other food, 53,000 g a day would reach the limit.
Why this rating: Eating it daily comes to 140 g a day, which stays within the 39,000 g of room left before the limit.
The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: under the limit
No cap: EFSA's 2020 tolerable daily intake for nickel is 13 µg/kg body weight/day, 910 µg/day for 70 kg. At a lower-bound mean of 17.077 ng/g (CFIA, 108 samples, 37.0% non-detects), about 53,289 g a day eaten alone would reach it, an upper bound; a 140 g serving carries 2.39 µg.
Aluminum
Nothing to watchYou’d need about 74 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to reach the limit.
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One serving carries 135 µg
How we got this
73,000 g a week reaches the limit
The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: under the limit
No cap: EFSA's tolerable weekly intake for aluminium is 1 mg/kg body weight/week, 70,000 µg/week for 70 kg. At a lower-bound mean of 0.964 µg/g (CFIA, 108 samples), about 72,594 g of cherries a week eaten alone would reach it, an upper bound because the concentration is a lower bound; a 140 g serving carries 135 µg.
Cadmium
Nothing to watchYou’d need more than 100 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to use up what an average adult’s intake leaves under the limit.
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One serving carries 0.02 µg
How we got this
A serving a day adds 0.1% to what an average adult already takes in: a share of that intake, not of the limit. With that serving every day, an average adult would be at about 71% of the limit.
An average adult already takes in about 71% of the limit. One serving a day fits in the room left.
Counted from zero, with no allowance for what adults already take in from other food, 1,100,000 g a week would reach the limit.
Why this rating: Eating it daily comes to 980 g a week, which stays within the 310,000 g of room left before the limit.
The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: under the limit
A daily serving adds 0.13% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap.
Glyphosate residues
Nothing to watchYou’d need more than 100 servings in a day of this food alone to reach the limit.
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One serving carries 0.04 µg (glyphosate)
How we got this
140,000,000 g a day reaches the limit
The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: under the limit
No cap: EFSA's 2023 acceptable daily intake for glyphosate is 0.5 mg/kg body weight/day, 35,000 µg/day for 70 kg. CFIA found it in 1 of 11 fresh cherry samples (maximum 0.0028 µg/g), a lower-bound mean of 0.0002545 µg/g, so on that figure 137,524,558 g a day eaten alone would be needed to reach it, an upper bound; a 140 g serving carries 0.0356 µg. Eleven samples is very small.
Lead
Nothing to watchYou’d need about 48 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to double the lead an average adult already gets. No dose is known to be safe, so doubling is where we flag.
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A serving a day adds 2.1% to what an average adult already takes in. There is no limit to take a share of.
One serving carries 0.74 µg
How we got this
The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake
No cap: no safe level of lead is set, so there is no grams figure; the rating rests on what a serving adds to average intake. One 140 g serving carries 0.74 µg, 2.1% of an average adult's 35 µg/day. The CFIA lower-bound mean is 5.271 ng/g over 108 samples (74.1% non-detects), from targeted inspection rather than a random survey.
For some people
Life-stage: small, round, hard foods and fruit pits are choking hazards for young children; a whole cherry is small and round and holds a pit. Not a concentration.
Person-specific: people allergic to peach often react to cherry through a shared 13 kd allergen (a lipid-transfer-type component); cherry also carries a cherry-specific 30 kd allergen. Mostly oral symptoms in pollen-related cases; systemic reactions in the LTP form. No cherry-specific prevalence extracted.
Worth knowing
No limit applies, so none is rated.
Sugar
18 g of sugar in a 140 g serving, natural and added together.
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Shown, not rated. The food tables we read give total sugar, and few give added sugar, so the site can’t yet tell sugar added in making a food from the sugar in fruit or milk.
Also checked (nothing to act on) · 4
Noted for context, or not measured in this food yet.
Measured in this food, not rated yet. Not rated: EFSA's 2024 reference point for inorganic arsenic is a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL05) of 0.06 µg/kg body weight/day, with no safe level. CFIA measured only total arsenic, a lower-bound mean of 5.978 ng/g over 108 samples (48.1% non-detects), not the inorganic fraction the reference point applies to, so no rating or grams figure is given.
Shown as context, not rated: cherry stones hold amygdalin, which can release cyanide if the stone is eaten or chewed, and steeping cherries in alcohol extracts it. EFSA's 2019 acute reference dose is 20 µg cyanide/kg body weight per sitting, 1,400 µg for 70 kg. The flesh is not the source and no stone concentration was found, so there is no grams figure; in one case report, alcohol-steeped cherries with stones contained 4.7–15 mg/kg cyanide.
Measured in this food, not rated yet. Not rated: EFSA's 2020 reference point for ochratoxin A is a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 14.5 µg/kg body weight/day (kidney tumours in rats), with no safe level. Only 3 CFIA samples exist, 1 with a detect (0.069 ng/g), a mean of 0.023 ng/g, and fresh or dried form is not stated. At 0.069 ng/g a 140 g serving would carry 0.01 µg, but three samples cannot support a rating.
Shown as context, not rated: no limit is applied to pesticide residues here. 293 of 333 CFIA-screened samples (88%) carried at least one residue, the highest rate of the three tree fruits, with 0 violations on every pooled row. Cherries are eaten whole and unpeeled; the effect of washing was not looked up.
Better options
How we counted this
“Better” here always means better at something the row names: more of one nutrient, more nutrients per serving, or the goal you pick. It never means better in every way.
Every amount below is for the same weight, 140 g, the size of one serving of this food, so a swap compares like with like. A serving of another food can be bigger or smaller.
A food is listed only if it gives clearly more: at least a fifth more than this food, and at least 10% of the daily amount more.
More of what it’s good for
More vitamin C
Kiwi, raw105 mg in 140 g (this food: 14.5 mg)
Strawberries, raw83.5 mg in 140 g (this food: 14.5 mg)
Amounts as listed, not adjusted for how much gets in.
More nutrients per serving, counted together
The other fruits we’ve checked with more nutrients per serving than this one, counting at most 100 kcal. One score ranks them all, so the same few often lead.
- Kiwi, raw
- More vitamin C (105 mg vs 14.5 mg)
- More vitamin K1 (56.4 µg vs 2.94 µg)
- More vitamin E (1.82 mg vs 0.1 mg)
Mango, raw- More vitamin C (51 mg vs 14.5 mg)
- More folate (60.2 µg vs 5.6 µg)
Pineapple, rawMore vitamin C (82.1 mg vs 14.5 mg)
Where the calcium card measured that less calcium gets in than from milk, calcium counts for less; everything else is as listed.
Your goal
Your goal changes only this list, not what the food gives you or what to watch.
Losing weight: fewer calories, and more nutrients, protein and fibre for each calorie.
Raspberries, raw- More fibre (9.1 g vs 2.94 g)
- More vitamin C (32.3 mg vs 14.5 mg)
Raspberries, frozenMore vitamin C (24.6 mg vs 14.5 mg)- Strawberries, raw
- 46 kcal in 140 g (this food: 89)
- More vitamin C (83.5 mg vs 14.5 mg)
Building muscle: more protein and more calories, per 100 g. In a typical diet most protein comes from other foods; among fruits, these help most.
Raisins3.3 g protein · 299 kcal per 100 g
Avocado, raw1.8 g protein · 206 kcal per 100 g
2 foods out of the 20 other fruits we’ve checked and could compare give clearly more protein, and more calories, per 100 g.
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Name in the database: Cherries, sweet, raw
How the serving was set: 140 g (Health Canada TRA J.1, fruit fresh, frozen or canned; cherries are not listed as a separate item)
Listed nutrients, per 100 g
For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.
| Nutrient | Per serving | Per 100 calories | How | Source | Grade | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omega-3: ALA | 0.026 g | 0.04 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Calcium | 12.26 mg | 17.16 mg | 19.37 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| 13 mg | 18.2 mg | 20.54 mg | copy of USDA · not used | Canadian Nutrient File 2026 #1531 | C | |
| Carbohydrate | 16.163 g | 22.63 g | 25.54 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Choline | 6.1 mg | 8.54 mg | 9.64 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Energy | 63.291 kcal | 88.61 kcal | – | FDC Energy (Atwater Specific Factors) used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) | – |
| 63 kcal | 88.2 kcal | – | from SR Legacy · not used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C | |
| Omega-3: EPA + DHA | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fat | 0.193 g | 0.27 g | 0.3 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fatty acids, total saturated | 0.038 g | 0.05 g | 0.06 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fibre | 2.1 g | 2.94 g | 3.32 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Folate | 4 µg | 5.6 µg | 6.32 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Iron | 0.105 mg | 0.15 mg | 0.17 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Magnesium | 12.11 mg | 16.95 mg | 19.13 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Niacin (B3, niacin equivalents) | 0.304 mg | 0.43 mg | 0.48 mg | listed used | Canadian Nutrient File 2026 #1531 | C |
| Phosphorus | 23.25 mg | 32.55 mg | 36.74 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Potassium | 229.6 mg | 321.44 mg | 362.77 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Protein | 1.039 g | 1.46 g | 1.64 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Riboflavin (B2) | 0.033 mg | 0.05 mg | 0.05 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Selenium | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Sodium | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Sugars | 12.82 g | 17.95 g | 20.26 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Thiamin (B1) | 0.027 mg | 0.04 mg | 0.04 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin A | 3 µg | 4.2 µg | 4.74 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin B12 | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.049 mg | 0.07 mg | 0.08 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Vitamin C | 10.39 mg | 14.55 mg | 16.42 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Vitamin D | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin E | 0.07 mg | 0.1 mg | 0.11 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin K1 | 2.1 µg | 2.94 µg | 3.32 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Water | 82.18 g | 115.05 g | 129.85 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Zinc | 0.064 mg | 0.09 mg | 0.1 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per serving | Per 100 calories | How | Source | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beta-carotene | 38 µg | 53.2 µg | 60.04 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Copper | 0.069 mg | 0.1 mg | 0.11 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Energy (Atwater general) | 70.543 kcal | 98.76 kcal | 111.46 kcal | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Energy (Atwater specific) | 63.291 kcal | 88.61 kcal | 100 kcal | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Nitrogen | 0.166 g | 0.23 g | 0.26 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Ash | 0.425 g | 0.6 g | 0.67 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Starch | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Sucrose | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Glucose | 8.359 g | 11.7 g | 13.21 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Fructose | 5.513 g | 7.72 g | 8.71 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Maltose | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Alcohol, ethyl | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Citric acid | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Malic acid | 762.4 mg | 1,067.36 mg | 1,204.6 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Oxalic acid | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Pyruvic acid | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Quinic acid | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Caffeine | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Theobromine | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Energy | 263 kj | 368.2 kj | 415.54 kj | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Sugars, Total | 13.872 g | 19.42 g | 21.92 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Galactose | 0.59 g | 0.83 g | 0.93 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fluoride, F | 2 µg | 2.8 µg | 3.16 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Molybdenum, Mo | 0.97 µg | 1.36 µg | 1.53 µg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Vitamin A, IU | 64 iu | 89.6 iu | 101.12 iu | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Carotene, alpha | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3), International Units | 0 iu | 0 iu | 0 iu | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Cryptoxanthin, beta | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Lycopene | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocopherol, beta | 0.01 mg | 0.01 mg | 0.02 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocopherol, gamma | 0.04 mg | 0.06 mg | 0.06 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocopherol, delta | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocotrienol, alpha | 0.03 mg | 0.04 mg | 0.05 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocotrienol, beta | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocotrienol, gamma | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tocotrienol, delta | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin K (Dihydrophylloquinone) | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Folic acid | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Folate, food | 4 µg | 5.6 µg | 6.32 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Folate, DFE | 4 µg | 5.6 µg | 6.32 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tryptophan | 0.009 g | 0.01 g | 0.01 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Threonine | 0.022 g | 0.03 g | 0.03 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Isoleucine | 0.02 g | 0.03 g | 0.03 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Leucine | 0.03 g | 0.04 g | 0.05 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Lysine | 0.032 g | 0.04 g | 0.05 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Methionine | 0.01 g | 0.01 g | 0.02 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Cystine | 0.01 g | 0.01 g | 0.02 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Phenylalanine | 0.024 g | 0.03 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Tyrosine | 0.014 g | 0.02 g | 0.02 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Valine | 0.024 g | 0.03 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Arginine | 0.018 g | 0.03 g | 0.03 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Histidine | 0.015 g | 0.02 g | 0.02 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Alanine | 0.026 g | 0.04 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Aspartic acid | 0.569 g | 0.8 g | 0.9 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Glutamic acid | 0.083 g | 0.12 g | 0.13 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Glycine | 0.023 g | 0.03 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Proline | 0.039 g | 0.05 g | 0.06 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Serine | 0.03 g | 0.04 g | 0.05 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin E, added | 0 mg | 0 mg | 0 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Vitamin B-12, added | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fatty acids, total trans | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 4:0 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 6:0 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 8:0 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 10:0 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 12:0 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 14:0 | 0.001 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 16:0 | 0.027 g | 0.04 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| SFA 18:0 | 0.009 g | 0.01 g | 0.01 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| MUFA 18:1 | 0.047 g | 0.07 g | 0.07 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 18:2 | 0.027 g | 0.04 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 18:3 | 0.026 g | 0.04 g | 0.04 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 20:4 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 22:6 n-3 (DHA) | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| MUFA 16:1 | 0.001 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 18:4 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| MUFA 20:1 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 20:5 n-3 (EPA) | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| MUFA 22:1 | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| PUFA 22:5 n-3 (DPA) | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Phytosterols | 12 mg | 16.8 mg | 18.96 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fatty acids, total monounsaturated | 0.047 g | 0.07 g | 0.07 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated | 0.052 g | 0.07 g | 0.08 g | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Lactose | 0 g | 0 g | 0 g | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Lutein + zeaxanthin | 85 µg | 119 µg | 134.3 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Manganese | 0.073 mg | 0.1 mg | 0.12 mg | listed used | US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2346399 | C |
| Niacin (B3, preformed) | 0.154 mg | 0.22 mg | 0.24 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Pantothenic acid (B5) | 0.199 mg | 0.28 mg | 0.31 mg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
| Retinol | 0 µg | 0 µg | 0 µg | from SR Legacy used | US food database (USDA SR Legacy) #171719 | C |
Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.
Hazard rows as the dataset rates them
- Aluminum · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's tolerable weekly intake for aluminium is 1 mg/kg body weight/week, 70,000 µg/week for 70 kg. At a lower-bound mean of 0.964 µg/g (CFIA, 108 samples), about 72,594 g of cherries a week eaten alone would reach it, an upper bound because the concentration is a lower bound; a 140 g serving carries 135 µg. · CFIA chemical residue monitoring (2016–2023) · B
- Arsenic, all forms · Not rated yet · Not rated: EFSA's 2024 reference point for inorganic arsenic is a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL05) of 0.06 µg/kg body weight/day, with no safe level. CFIA measured only total arsenic, a lower-bound mean of 5.978 ng/g over 108 samples (48.1% non-detects), not the inorganic fraction the reference point applies to, so no rating or grams figure is given. · CFIA chemical residue monitoring (2016–2023) · B
- Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.13% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · CFIA chemical residue monitoring (2016–2023) · B
- Choking risk under age 4 · Worth knowing · Life-stage: small, round, hard foods and fruit pits are choking hazards for young children; a whole cherry is small and round and holds a pit. Not a concentration. · Health Canada, Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations… · B
- Cyanogenic glycosides · Context · Shown as context, not rated: cherry stones hold amygdalin, which can release cyanide if the stone is eaten or chewed, and steeping cherries in alcohol extracts it. EFSA's 2019 acute reference dose is 20 µg cyanide/kg body weight per sitting, 1,400 µg for 70 kg. The flesh is not the source and no stone concentration was found, so there is no grams figure; in one case report, alcohol-steeped cherries with stones contained 4.7–15 mg/kg cyanide. · EFSA 2019 · B
- Glyphosate residues · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's 2023 acceptable daily intake for glyphosate is 0.5 mg/kg body weight/day, 35,000 µg/day for 70 kg. CFIA found it in 1 of 11 fresh cherry samples (maximum 0.0028 µg/g), a lower-bound mean of 0.0002545 µg/g, so on that figure 137,524,558 g a day eaten alone would be needed to reach it, an upper bound; a 140 g serving carries 0.0356 µg. Eleven samples is very small. · CFIA 2015–2017 · B
- Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe level of lead is set, so there is no grams figure; the rating rests on what a serving adds to average intake. One 140 g serving carries 0.74 µg, 2.1% of an average adult's 35 µg/day. The CFIA lower-bound mean is 5.271 ng/g over 108 samples (74.1% non-detects), from targeted inspection rather than a random survey. · CFIA chemical residue monitoring (2016–2023) · B
- Nickel · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's 2020 tolerable daily intake for nickel is 13 µg/kg body weight/day, 910 µg/day for 70 kg. At a lower-bound mean of 17.077 ng/g (CFIA, 108 samples, 37.0% non-detects), about 53,289 g a day eaten alone would reach it, an upper bound; a 140 g serving carries 2.39 µg. · CFIA chemical residue monitoring (2016–2023) · B
- Ochratoxin A · Not rated yet · Not rated: EFSA's 2020 reference point for ochratoxin A is a benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 14.5 µg/kg body weight/day (kidney tumours in rats), with no safe level. Only 3 CFIA samples exist, 1 with a detect (0.069 ng/g), a mean of 0.023 ng/g, and fresh or dried form is not stated. At 0.069 ng/g a 140 g serving would carry 0.01 µg, but three samples cannot support a rating. · CFIA 2011–2022 · C
- Oral allergy to Rosaceae fruit · Worth knowing · Person-specific: people allergic to peach often react to cherry through a shared 13 kd allergen (a lipid-transfer-type component); cherry also carries a cherry-specific 30 kd allergen. Mostly oral symptoms in pollen-related cases; systemic reactions in the LTP form. No cherry-specific prevalence extracted. · PubMed 7930303 · B
- Pesticide residues · Context · Shown as context, not rated: no limit is applied to pesticide residues here. 293 of 333 CFIA-screened samples (88%) carried at least one residue, the highest rate of the three tree fruits, with 0 violations on every pooled row. Cherries are eaten whole and unpeeled; the effect of washing was not looked up. · CFIA chemical residue monitoring (2016–2023) · A
Oxalate, phytate and gut-tolerance measurements
- fodmap excess fructose: derived: fructose 5.513 minus glucose 8.359 = -2.85 g/100 g, i.e. no excess fructose (glucose exceeds fructose); the Spanish table agrees (fructose 56.5 below glucose 71.2 g/kg) g/100 g · fresh weight · raw · grade B · US food database (USDA Foundation Foods)
- histamine: not detected (n = 5); tyramine not detected; putrescine 3.08 mg/kg (2.35-3.46) mg/kg · fresh weight · raw · grade B · Sanchezperez 2018
Sources
- CFIA, 2015-2017 Glyphosate Testing Data, open.canada.ca dataset 906cd35c-d396-4999-9a9f-f5351796661f (resource 11318cc2-f9ef-4774-8b54-4716c18cc340)
cfia-glyphosate-2015-2017· dataset · Open Government Licence - Canada - CFIA, National Chemical Residue Monitoring Program, Annex B1 (domestic) and B2 (import) results summaries 2016-17 to 2022-23 (open.canada.ca); rows Watermelon, Melon - Cantaloupe, Cucumber, Zucchini
cfia-ncrmp-annexes-2016-2023· secondary source · Government of Canada terms (Crown copyright) - CFIA, ochratoxin A in selected foods, targeted surveys 2011-12 and 2012-18/2019-22 (open.canada.ca resources e8611921...
cfia-ota-selected-foods-2011-2022· secondary source · Open Government Licence - Canada - Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
cnf-2026· dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0 - EFSA CONTAM Panel (2019). Evaluation of the health risks related to the presence of cyanogenic glycosides in foods other than raw apricot kernels. EFSA Journal 17(4):5662 · doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5662
efsa-2019-cyanogenic-glycosides· full text read · EFSA Journal: CC BY-ND 4.0 (per EFSA policy; not checked on the page) - USDA FoodData Central, Foundation Foods, release 2026-04-30
fdc-foundation-2026-04-30· dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain) - USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04· dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain) - Health Canada, Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations from Six to 24 Months (Choking and aspiration)
hc-infant-nutrition-6-24m· page · Government of Canada terms (Crown copyright; not OGL) - Allergenic cross-reactivity among peach, apricot, plum, and cherry in patients with oral allergy syndrome: an in vivo and in vitro study. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1994 Oct · PMID 7930303
pmid:7930303· abstract only · licence not recorded - Sánchez-Pérez S et al. 2018, Foods 7:205, Table 1 (histamine in plant foods; PMC6306728)
sanchezperez2018· full text read · CC BY 4.0
Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.
The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.
The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.
Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.