Cucumber Calories
Like other vegetables, most of the cucumber calories come from carbs. The cucumber’s weight is 95% water, and the rest is responsible for the cucumber calories.
Cucumber calories according to the USDA site:
- single large cucumber (8-1/4″, 300 gr) with peel – 45 calories
- single large cucumber (8-1/4″, 280 gr) peeled – 34 calories
You have to remember that although the number of cucumber calories for a peeled cucumber is lower than the number of cucumber calories for an unpeeled cucumber, that a lot of nutrients are inside the peel. So it is worth while to eat the cucumber and the peel and all of its cucumber calories.
Calories in Strawberries
Strawberries are a prefect example of a natural dessert. Sweet, juicy and delicious. But like other fruits we need to have a closer look at the calories in the strawberries to make sure we are consuming them wisely.
The good thing about calories in strawberries is the fact that a single strawberry doesn’t have a lot of calories. A small one would have only 2 calories. And even a large strawberry has 10 calories tops. So unless you are planning on eating baskets of strawberries, you are not likely to consume too many calories.
Here are a few official numbers about calories in strawberries:
- 100 gr (3.5 oz) of strawberries – 32 calories
- 1 cup of whole strawberries (144 gr) – 46 calories
- 1 cup of sliced strawberries (166 gr) – 53 calories
calories in strawberries
Besides the calories in strawberries, it is good to know that 90% of strawberries content is actually water. And even the sugar percentage is not very high – less than 5% (an apple for example has more than 10% sugar rate).
So unless you are planning on covering your strawberries with extra sugar, cream or ice cream, you can happliy enjoy the calories in strawberries, if you eat them moderately and as a part of a balanced diet.
Calories in an Apple
Who would have believed you can say so much about calories in an apple? It seems a simple answer like 100 calories in an apple would be sufficient. But whoever made this short video thought otherwise.
So have a look and enjoy both detailed and good nutrition information and some fun facts you never knew about calories in an apple:
Bagel Calories
No one can resist the warm smell of a fresh bagel. Lucky for us, the smell of bagels doesn’t have any bagel calories in it. Too bad taste does. Let’s see if you can still inlucde some bagels in your diet.
Let’s check out the good old fashion plain bagel calories (including onions, poppy or sesame):
- Mini bagel (0.8oz, 26gr, 2.5″ diameter) – 67 bagel calories
- Medium bagel (2.5oz, 71gr, 3.5″ diameter) – 182 bagel calories
- Large bagel (3.9oz, 4.5″ diameter) – 283 bagel calories
Now whether you are toasing the bagel or not doesn’t have a real effect on the bagel calories (maybe only a few calories). There is no real difference between a plain bagel calories and a toasted bagel calories since its only water are missing from the bagel.
However if your thinking about buttering you bagel that’s a completely different story and your bagel calories will add up! A pat of butter (5 gr, 1″ sqr) has 36 calories and almost all of it is fat. So you do the math according to how much butter you put of your bagel. Same goes for cream cheese: between 20-50 calories more to your bagel calories.
So next time you visit the bakery, take a big breath and enjoy that delicious bagel smell, but if you are on diet, remember those bagel calories values and choose your food wisely.
Numbers are from the USDA National Nutrient Database
Caesar Salad Calories
Checking the amount of Caesar Salad Calories is not a very easy task. That’s because the sizes and ingridients are not standard. The vegetables can vary a bit, the way you cook the chicken and the dressing – that’s a big big thing when discussing caesar salad calories.
So, let’s take a simple example, that we all know: McDonald’s Caesar Salad. It’s not a recommendation, this is just for us to get a notion of the amount of caesar salad calories. Once you get an idea of the general amount, you can calculate your caesar salad calories.
Without the chicken, McDonald’s caesar salad has only 90 calories in it. A grilled chicken adds 130 calories. A crispy chicken adds 240 calories. So in total, the caesar salad calories can add up to 220-330 calories.
But that’s not all!!!
Croutons: they might be small, but are they covered with butter or cheese? And how many of them did you eat? They can get up to 120 calories for 1 oz.
But we’ve still haven’t discusses the major ingridient in caesar salad calories: the dressing!
Like a lot of other salads, the dressing can have so many calories! It isn’t surprising to hear that a 2 fl oz packet of what is referred to as creamy caesar salad has 190 calories! That is almost the amount of the whole caesar salad calories (eaten with grilled chicken)!
So as you can see, caesar salad calories can vary from 200 to 600 calories! If you are concerned about your calories intake, stick with the grilled chicken and find some other low calorie dressing.
Calories in Corn
There are several types of corn, so the question of calories in corn needs to be divided into several answers.
If you are talking about corn on the cob, there are around 60 calories in corn on cob for an ear weighing a bit more than 2 oz (63 gr) – that is of course cooked, boiled and dried. It doesn’t really matter if it’s white or yellow corn.
Obvisouly, answering the calories in corn question for corn on the cob does not include the calories in the butter you are adding on it! Even a small amount of butter can add around 40 calories to your corn on the cob! So if want to keep the calories in corn low, forget about the butter.
Moving on to canned corn, there is such a variety that it is difficult to state exactly the amount of calories in corn: vaccum pack, cream style, drained or not. Generally speaking in 3.5 oz (100 gr) of canned corn there are between 60 and 80 calories. You can check the USDA site for your specific can.
And last – popcorn! Perhaps the best corn there is. So how many calories in popcorn vs calories in corn? Well, if you are looking into those “standard” weights like 3.5 oz of popcorn, you’ll get 387 calories for air popped corn and 429 calories in corn that was popped in a microwave. But if you are only looking for a small snack, like a cup of popcorn, you’ll consume only 30-40 calories.
When talking about your diet, the question of calories in corn is similar to other nutrition questions. The answer is: check the label, don’t over eat and make sure you choose healthy foods.
Cheese Calories
In the risk of sounding cheesy, the question of cheese calories is, (how should I put it?) plain silly. It’s not that it doesn’t have a serious answer, but come on – we all know about cheese and the cheese calories, don’t we? Am I trying to fool myself into eating a fat chunky slice of pizza without considering all the cheese calories in it?
But we’re here to gather some information about calories in foods in general and specifically about calories in cheese and have a better knowledge of what we eat. So let’s discuss cheese in a few ways: cheese calories, cheese nutrition values and cheese types.
If you want a simple straight forward answer for the cheese calories question, here’s a simple thumb rule that would suit most hard yellow cheeses:
1 oz of cheese (usually 1 slice or 2 small cubes) has around 100 calories and 8 grams of fat (out of which 5 grams are saturated fat).
A third of the cheese is fat. And almost two thirds of that fat is saturated fat. So it is always better to consume cheese in very small pieces or as thin spreads rather than in those thick multi layered chunks on pizzas.
Obviously when checking low fat cheese the amount of cheese calories will decrease. Low fat cheddar cheese can have as much as half the calories of full fat cheddar cheese. And low fat riccota can deduct around third of its cheese calories. But again – if eat a lot of the cheese, the cheese calories will add up!
A unique case is cottage cheese. It has mainly protein and it cheese calories level is only 30 calories for 1 oz of cheese.
