Calories in tomato (cherry tomatoes)

Red, ripe, raw. 18 kcal (75 kJ) per 100 g. Choose a portion below and every figure on the page updates.

Tomatoes are about 95% water, so 100 g of raw red tomato provides just 18 kcal (75 kJ), mostly from natural sugars. Cherry tomatoes have essentially the same values per 100 g as larger tomatoes; only the portion size differs. Tomatoes add some vitamin C, potassium and the red pigment lycopene, but their main appeal for calorie counting is how little energy they carry.

Where the energy comes from

Share of total energy contributed by each macronutrient, using the standard 4/4/9 kcal per gram factors:

Things worth knowing

• One cherry tomato (17 g) has about 3 kcal (13 kJ), and a cup of cherry tomatoes (149 g) about 27 kcal (112 kJ).
• A medium tomato (123 g) provides about 22 kcal (93 kJ) and a large one (182 g) about 33 kcal (137 kJ); a single slice is around 4 kcal.
• Drying concentrates everything: plain sun-dried tomatoes have about 258 kcal (1079 kJ) per 100 g, more than 14 times the energy of fresh tomato.
• Lycopene is better absorbed from cooked tomato products such as sauce or paste than from raw tomatoes, especially when eaten with some fat.

Converting these figures

One 1 medium tomato of tomato is 22 kcal, which is 93 kJ. To convert any other figure, divide kilojoules by 4.184 for calories, or use the converter on the home page.

It takes 1,328 g of tomato to reach 1,000 kJ (239 kcal). See how that compares with other foods on the 1000 kJ to calories page.