How many calories an apple has depends on its size, and on whether you weigh it with the core.
An eating apple has 51 calories per 100g of the part you eat, the flesh and skin.1 Weighed whole, core and all, it has 43 calories per 100g. These figures, and every other one on this page, come from the UK government's food composition data.
How many calories are in one apple?
To get the figure for yours, put it on the scales, then multiply its weight in grams by:
For example, a 180g apple, weighed whole, has 77 calories.1
Use the column that matches what you put on the scales. Figures are rounded to the nearest calorie.
Does the type of apple or the skin matter?
There's one figure for all eating apples, including Pink Lady, Gala, Braeburn, Cox, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith.1 Red or green, use 51 calories per 100g.
The figure includes the skin. There's no figure for a peeled eating apple.
Do cooking apples have fewer calories?
Raw and peeled, yes. A raw cooking apple, such as a Bramley, has 37 calories per 100g.1 It also has less sugar than an eating apple.
Sugar added in cooking makes the biggest difference. Stewed without sugar, cooking apple has 40 calories per 100g. Stewed with sugar, it has 81.1
Dried apple has the most calories per 100g because drying takes out most of the water. Fresh eating apple is 86% water, and dried apple is 22%.1
How does an apple compare with other fruit?
Per 100g, an apple has more calories than strawberries, blueberries, oranges, or pears. It has fewer than grapes or bananas.1
Apple calorie FAQs
How many calories are in 100g of apple?
For the flesh and skin, 51. If the 100g includes the core, 43.1
How many calories are in a Pink Lady apple?
There's no separate figure for Pink Lady. Use the eating apple figure, 51 calories per 100g.1
How much sugar is in an apple?
About 12g per 100g of flesh and skin.1
How much protein is in an apple?
Less than 1g per 100g.1 An apple isn't a source of protein.
The numan take
If you log your food, weigh your apple the way you'd enter it: whole with the core, or just the part you eat. Then use the matching figure, 43 or 51 calories per 100g, whatever the variety. Watch dried apple, though: weight for weight, it has nearly five times the calories of fresh.
Our guide to counting calories without becoming obsessive has ways to keep tracking in proportion.
References
1. Public Health England. McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021. Public Health England, 19 March 2021. Food codes 14-319, 14-346, 14-362, 14-320, 14-332, 14-016, 14-324, 14-327, 14-325, 14-321, 14-350, and 14-318. Eating apple values from Department of Health, Nutrient analysis of fruit and vegetables, 2013: 22 samples, autumn and winter, UK grown and imported. Cooking apple (raw) values from LGC analysis, 1985 to 1986 and 2011 to 2012. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid (opened 9 Nov 2026)
)
