Blueberries Calories
The blueberry It is considered as an authentic fruit extremely beneficial not only for the urinary system, being useful in the treatment of prevention and elimination of urinary tract infections, but also suitable and ideal for the circulation in general.
Not in vain, within the different blueberry properties, we find that it is a fresh food that, in addition to reducing varicose veins, prevents the formation of thrombi, favoring the good condition of the arteries and strengthening the capillaries at the same time.
Cranberry juice, for example, is particularly useful against fluid retention, making it ideal in slimming diets. But how many are the cranberry calories and how much caloric content contribute 100 grams ?.
Blueberries Calories
Depending on the amount of cranberry we consume it is evident that your caloric intake will vary. But, basically, below we can find out how many calories the cranberries contribute per 100 grams:
- 100 grams of cranberry provide between 41 to 52 calories.
However, depending on the variety of cranberry that we are going to consume, your caloric intake will vary a bit:
- 100 grams of cranberries provide 46 calories.
- 100 grams of blueberries provide 51 calories.
You must bear in mind that this calorie content is consumed by the fruit alone. If you choose to take it with sugar, for example, that caloric content increases (in addition to not being very advisable from a nutritional point of view).
On the other hand, depending on the foods with which we consume the blueberries, their energy and therefore caloric intake will vary enormously, either positively or negatively. In this sense, below we indicate your energy contribution depending on the recipe or dish that is consumed, summarizing it by the most common options:
- Cranberry juice: 59 kcal.
- Blueberry and hazelnut smoothie: 355 kcal.
- Smoothie of blueberries and bananas: 375 kcal.
- Blueberry cake: 245 kcal (per 100 grams).
- Cheesecake with cranberries: 297 kcal (per 100 grams).
What are blueberries?
Basically, we could define cranberries as delicious Fruits of the forest known scientifically with the name ofVaccinium spp., and that depending on the variety we could find ourselves fundamentally before two usual and popularly known concrete types: Red cranberry(of the genus Vaccinium and subgenus Oxycoccus) and the blueberry(of the subgenus Corymbosum).
But there are also other varieties, which we summarize below:
- Common cranberry:also know ascranberry from the north.
- Small cranberry:scientifically knownVaccinium microcarpum.
- American cranberry:also know asamerican red cranberry orVaccinium macrocarpon.
- Cranberry from the southern mountains:known scientifically asOxycoccus erythrocarpus.
- Blueberry:also know asVaccinium Corymbosum.
They consist of groups of shrubs of very small size, whose stems can reach 10 centimeters, although the most common is that they are smaller.
Nutritional information for blueberries
100 grams of blueberries provide:
- Energy: 52 kcal.
- Carbohydrates: 14.49 gr.
- Total sugars: 9.96 gr.
- Proteins: 0.75 gr.
- Fat: 0.33 gr.
- Water: 84.21 gr.
- Fiber: 2.4 gr.
- Minerals: potassium (77 mg), phosphorus (12 mg), magnesium (6 mg), sodium (1 mg), iron (0.28 mg), zinc (0.16 mg).
- Vitamins: vitamin A (54 iu), B1 (0.03 mg), B2 (0.04 mg), B3 (0.41 mg), B5 (0.12 mg), B6 (0.05 mg), vitamin C (9.7 mg), vitamin E (0.57 mg) and vitamin K1 (19.3 mcg).
