How Many Calories in a Strawberry?

A single medium strawberry contains roughly 4 calories. A full cup of sliced strawberries (166g) has just 49 calories, making strawberries one of the lowest-calorie fruits available. They are 91% water and provide nearly a full days worth of vitamin C in a single cup.

🍓 Calories by Serving Size

🍓 How Many Calories in a Cup of Strawberries?

A cup of whole strawberries has 46 calories. Sliced comes to 49 because you can fit more into the cup. Either way, you are getting nearly your entire daily vitamin C requirement for fewer calories than a single Oreo cookie.

🧊 Fresh vs Frozen Strawberries: Any Difference?

Frozen unsweetened strawberries have essentially the same calories as fresh (about 52 per cup vs 46). The freezing process actually locks in nutrients at peak ripeness, so frozen berries may contain more vitamin C and antioxidants than fresh ones that spent a week in transit. The catch is sweetened frozen strawberries, which can hit 200 calories per cup from added sugar. Always check the label.

🍓 Are Strawberries Good for You?

Strawberries contain some of the highest antioxidant levels of any common fruit. The deep red color comes from anthocyanins, compounds linked to reduced inflammation and improved blood vessel function. The ellagic acid in strawberries has attracted particular research attention, studies at Ohio State University found that freeze-dried strawberry powder slowed the progression of precancerous esophageal lesions in human trials.

🍓 Strawberries Have More Vitamin C Than Oranges

Cup for cup, strawberries contain about 50% more vitamin C than oranges (97% DV per cup vs 65% DV). Oranges get all the credit for vitamin C mainly because of marketing by the Florida citrus industry in the mid-20th century. Strawberries are also one of the few fruits that wear their seeds on the outside, with an average of 200 seeds per berry. And technically, each of those tiny yellow dots is its own individual fruit.