Cucumber Calories

November 25, 2008

Cucumber Calories

Surprisingly enough, cucumbers are actually considered fruit! That means that cucumber calories, like fruit calories are influenced by the amount of sugar in the cucumber. But unlike other fruit, the amount of sugar is not very high and the sugar counts for less than half of the cucumber calories.

Cucumber Calories (with peel)

• 100gr (3.5oz) - 15 calories
• 1 large cucumber (8-1/4″, 301gr) - 45 calories

Cucumber Calories (peeled)

• 100gr (3.5oz) - 12 calories
• 1 small cucumber (6-3/8″, 158gr) - 19 calories
• 1 medium cucumber (201gr) - 24 calories
• 1 large cucumber (8-1/4″, 280gr) - 34 calories

Cucumber Calories - Tips

You should know that the peel is considered healty for you. So besides envaluating the cucumber calories, you should consider other nutrients as well.

Another point you should take in account is that we are talking about fresh and raw cucumber calories. Any cooking or pickling changes the nutrition values and the cucumber calories count. Sour pickled cucumber may have less calories and sweet pickled cucumber may have more than the raw cucumber calories, so you need to check whatever you eat.