Cucumber: Calories and Nutrition Analyse

Cucumber: calories, protein, carbs and fat exact data

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Marcin Piotrowicz

How many calories in cucumber?

In this article:

★ Calories
★ Nutrition
★ Calories in 1, 2, 3 or more...
★ Calories per ounce (oz)
★ Carbs
★ Fat
★ Protein

100g of cucumbers have about 15 calories (kcal).
Calories per: ounce | single piece | slice | cup | half cup

For instance, medium size cucumber (180 g) has about 27 calories.

It is about 1% of daily calories intake for adult person with medium weight and medium activity (for calculation we assumed 2400 kcal daily intake).

To visualize how much it actualy is, take in mind that calories amount from medium size cucumber is similar to calories amount from ie.:

0.5 apple
1 cube of sugar

To burn this calories you have to bike at least 4 minutes, swim for about 3 minutes or run for 3 minutes.

Calories In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

See all nutrition data of cucumber on charts.

Cucumber: calories and nutrition per 100g (and per ounce)

Calories15kcal/100g(4 kcal/oz)

Carbs3.6g/100g(1 g/oz)

Protein0.7g/100g(0.2 g/oz)

Fat0.1g/100g(0 g/oz)

Check compares of cucumber with other products from vegetables category:

How many calories in 1, 2, 3 or 5 cucumbers?

As I wrote before medium size cucumber (180 g) have 27 calories. It is easy to count that two cucumbers have about 54 calories and three cucumbers have about 81 calories. In table below you can also see calories amount for four and five cucumbers.

Medium size cucumber (180 g)27 kcal
Slice of cucumber (2g)0 kcal
Cup of cucumber (150g)23 kcal
Half cup of cucumber (75g)11 kcal
Ounce (oz) of cucumbers4 kcal
Half of medium size cucumber13.5 kcal
Small size cucumber (144g)21.6 kcal
Big size cucumber (234g)35.1 kcal
Two medium size cucumbers54 kcal
Three medium size cucumbers81 kcal
Four medium size cucumbers108 kcal
Five medium size cucumbers135 kcal

Protein in cucumber

Cucumbers have 0.65 g protein per 100g.
When you multiplay this value with weight of medium size cucumber (180 g) you can see that you will get about 1.2 g of protein.

Carbs in cucumbers

Cucumbers have 3.63 g carbohydrates per 100g.
In the same way as for protein we can calculate that medium size cucumber (180 g) has about 6.5 g of carbs.

Fat in cucumbers

Cucumbers have 0.11 g fat per 100g.
So it is easy to count that medium size cucumber (180 g) has about 0.2 g of fat.

medium size cucumber (180 g) has:

27kcalFor burning these calories you have to:

Bike4 min.Bike

Horse ride5 min.Horse ride

Play tennis3 min.Tennis

Run3 min.Run

Swim3 min.Swim

cucumber - vitamins per 100g

Vitaminium A105 IU
Vitaminium B1 (Thiamine)0.027 mg
Vitaminium B2 (riboflavin)0.033 mg
Vitaminium B3 (Niacin)0.098 mg
Vitaminium B50.259 mg
Vitaminium B60.04 mg
Vitaminium B9 (Folic acid)7 mcg
Vitaminium C2.8 mg
Vitaminium E0.03 mg
Vitaminium K16.4 mg

Energy content of cucumber

80% CARBS
14% PROTEIN
5% FAT

cucumber - minerals per 100g

Potassium147 mg
Magnessium13 mg
Calcium16 mg
Sodium2 mg
Iron0.28 mg
Zink0.2 mg
Beta karoten45 mg

Does cucumber make you fat and how it affect your weight?

Count of calories in cucumber is one of the lowest from all products in vegetables category. If you are on diet and you are looking for low-calorific vegetables, cucumber seems to be a good choice.

It is really not much as for vegetables. Similar energy amount have only such products as lettuce leaves, purslane leaves and roots or radishes.

Interesting charts - compare cucumber with other vegetables

When you look at charts below you will see how cucumber looks like in comparsion to other products from its category. When you click on selected product you will se detailed comparsion.

Vitamin C In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Fiber In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Fat In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Iron In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Magnesium In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Potassium In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Protein In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Sodium In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin B1 In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin B2 In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin B5 (Acid Pantotenic) In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin B6 In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin E In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin K In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Zinc In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Carbohydrates In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Calories In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Calcium In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Vitamin A In Cucumber Based On Vegetables Category

Author of this page
Marcin Piotrowicz

calories-info.com creator
Promoter of a healthy eating and living style

All information about nutrition on this website was created with help of information from the official United States Department of Agriculture database.