Calories in gherkins: 12 kcal per 100 g

What’s in an 80 g portion

More than half of a portion is water, which is why the calories stay low. What is left is mostly carbohydrate.

0.08 gFat

0.8 gProtein

1.4 gCarbohydrate

0.64 gFibre

76.4 gWater

0.6 gMinerals and the rest

0.08 gFat
0.8 gProtein
1.4 gCarbohydrate
0.64 gFibre
76.4 gWater
0.6 gMinerals and the rest

Below average for vegetables

Gherkins are 12 kcal per 100 g. The 240 vegetables in this database average 59.9.

Gherkins12

Vegetables average59.9

Low in sugar, almost no salt

Low sugars and very low salt by UK labelling rules, per 100 g.

Sugars, per portion1.3 g

Salt, per portion0.02 g

Vitamins and minerals in gherkins

None of the 16 reaches the “source of” level. Vitamin C comes closest at 14 % per 100 g.

11 %

Vitamin C

8.8 mg in an 80 g portion

122nd of 216 vegetables

Vitamin C is below the 15 % “source of” level in gherkins, so no function line applies.

Potassium184 mg9.2 %

Folate0.0144 mg7.2 %

Manganese0.08 mg4 %

Phosphorus22.4 mg3.2 %

Magnesium12 mg3.2 %

None recorded

Vitamin D
Vitamin B12

Show all 16 with amounts

Vitamin C8.8 mg, 11 %

Potassium184 mg, 9.2 %

Folate0.0144 mg, 7.2 %

Manganese0.08 mg, 4 %

Phosphorus22.4 mg, 3.2 %

Magnesium12 mg, 3.2 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.04 mg, 2.9 %

Calcium20 mg, 2.5 %

Vitamin A0.0184 mg, 2.3 %

Iron0.24 mg, 1.7 %

Zinc0.16 mg, 1.6 %

Niacin (vitamin B3)0.24 mg, 1.5 %

Copper0.01 mg, 0.8 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.01 mg, 0.7 %

Vitamin Dnone recorded

Vitamin B12none recorded

Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”.

What gherkins don’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin D or vitamin B12, and only 2 % of the zinc reference intake per 100 g.

Vitamin D

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Zinc

2%in gherkins, per 100 g

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Vitamin B12

0mgin gherkins

Find it inLiver, ox, raw4400 % per 100 g

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Gherkins against other vegetables

Per 100 g, spring greens (boiled) have the most vitamin C in this comparison, followed by spring onions (bulbs and tops, raw).

77mg

26mg

12mg

11mg

5mg

3mg

Spring greens, boiled+66 mg

Spring onions, bulbs and tops, raw+15 mg

Asparagus, raw+1 mg

Gherkins, rawthis page

Water chestnuts, raw−6 mg

Carrots, old, microwaved−8 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against gherkins.

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Questions about gherkins

What the numbers say to the questions people actually search.

How many calories are in a portion of gherkins?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 10 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 12 kcal.

Which vitamins and minerals do gherkins have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (11 mg, 14 %), potassium (230 mg, 12 %) and folate (0.018 mg, 9 %) per 100 g.

Are gherkins a good source of protein?

Gherkins, raw have 1 g protein per 100 g, 30 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “high protein”.

Are gherkins high in salt?

No. Salt is 0.03 g per 100 g, which is very low under UK rules.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 13-245, Gherkins, raw, 5 analysed samples, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: Vegetables, Herbs and Spices Supplement, 1991. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a portion is 80 g, one of your five a day, the usual UK portion for vegetables. Edible proportion: 95 % of the weight as bought is eaten. Reference intakes follow Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 Annex XIII as retained in GB law; “source of”, “high in” and “low” follow Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, assessed per 100 g. Function lines are the authorised wording from the GB register of nutrition and health claims, credited to the nutrient. Energy is rounded to the whole kcal and kJ; other amounts to one decimal, or two below 1. A trace is shown as “trace” and never gets a figure or a badge; a nutrient never analysed is left off the page. We start from the dataset’s 2,887 records and keep 2,322: records weighed with bone, shell or skin, alcoholic drinks, infant foods, brand-named products, records with fewer than eight measured vitamins and minerals and near-identical variants are left out. Group context uses the 240 vegetables kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Food images are illustrations from Ingredient Atlas, released under CC0; they show the food, not the measured sample. Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.