Apple Calories by Variety: Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp & Granny Smith

Quick answer: apple calories are refreshingly boring — every common variety lands between about 52 and 63 calories per 100 g, so a medium apple of any kind is roughly 95-120 kcal. If you came here for honeycrisp apple calories specifically: a Honeycrisp runs about 57 calories per 100 g and about 104 for a medium fruit. Variety changes the taste far more than the calories; size changes the calories more than variety does.

That is genuinely good news. It means you can pick your apple by flavor, crunch and price instead of by calorie guilt — and the rest of this guide, the variety table, the per-variety notes and the size math, exists to prove that one point from every angle.

How to use the numbers: find your usual variety in the table for the per-apple figure, then sanity-check it once against a kitchen scale. After that single weigh-in you will know your apple better than any chart can, and you can log it the same way every day without thinking about it again.

The Variety Table

Here are the four varieties most people actually buy, using USDA-style figures for raw apples with the skin on. Two things before the numbers: “medium” here means a typical store apple of about 180 g, and every value is an “about” — orchard, season and ripeness nudge the real figures a little either way.

Variety	kcal per 100 g	kcal per medium apple	Sugar per 100 g	Character
Gala	57	About 98	9.7 g	Sweet and mellow
Fuji	63	About 110	11.7 g	The sweetest and densest
Honeycrisp	57	About 104	10.6 g	Sweet-tart and famously crisp
Granny Smith	58	About 97	9.6 g	The tartest and firmest

One row the table does not need: fiber. All four varieties carry about 2.4 g of fiber per 100 g, and most of it lives in the skin — which is why every number here assumes an unpeeled apple. Peel it and you keep almost all of the calories while throwing away much of the fiber, and the chew that makes an apple filling. An unpeeled apple is the whole point.

A quick word on the word “about”: these are averages across many tested apples, not a promise about the one in your hand. A sun-sweetened Fuji in October and a storage Fuji in April are the same variety with slightly different sugar. Treat the table as a map, not a meter reading.

Notice what the sugar column does and does not do. It tracks flavor — Fuji tastes sweetest because it is — but it barely moves the calorie column, because all four apples are mostly water (roughly 85%) with similar total carbohydrate. Sugar differences of 2 g per 100 g are a taste story, not a diet story.

Gala: The Everyday Sweet Apple

Gala is the default lunchbox apple for a reason: thin skin, a mild, honeyed sweetness and almost no tart bite, which makes it the variety children reliably finish instead of trading away. At about 57 kcal per 100 g and roughly 98 in a medium fruit, it sits mid-pack on calories, and low on sugar for a sweet apple at about 9.7 g per 100 g.

Its softer, yielding flesh is also why Gala bakes well into sauces and butters where you want the apple to melt rather than hold its shape. If your household eats apples daily and argues about them rarely, this is usually the one already in the bag.

Fuji: The Dessert Apple

Fuji is the sweetest and densest of the four: about 63 kcal per 100 g, roughly 110 in a medium apple, and about 11.7 g of sugar per 100 g — the highest natural sugar here. Bred in Japan from Red Delicious and Ralls Janet stock, it was built for sweetness and a hard crunch, and it shows in every bite.

That density cuts both ways. A Fuji eats like a small dessert — genuinely satisfying when you want something sweet after lunch — but it is also the apple most likely to catch you out when your “medium” Fuji is actually a 220 g orchard monster. More on that in the size section below.

Fuji also stores better than the other three — months in a cold fridge with its crunch mostly intact — which is why it dominates supermarket shelves in spring. A stored Fuji slowly converts starch to sugar, so late-season fruit can taste even sweeter at the same listed calories.

Honeycrisp: The Crunch Premium

Honeycrisp is the apple people write home about: unusually large cells that burst rather than crunch, and a sweet-tart balance that neither Gala nor Fuji quite hits. Honeycrisp apple calories land at about 57 per 100 g and about 104 for a medium fruit — squarely mid-table, despite the premium price tag.

Its sugar, about 10.6 g per 100 g, sits between Gala and Fuji, but the noticeable acidity makes it taste brighter and less sweet than the number suggests. You are paying for texture, not for a calorie difference — which, honestly, is exactly the right thing to pay for in an apple.

Granny Smith: The Tart Baker’s Apple

Granny Smith is the tartest and firmest of the four, and the one with the least sugar: about 9.6 g per 100 g, with about 58 kcal per 100 g and roughly 97 in a medium fruit. That firm, acidic flesh is exactly why pies work — the slices hold their shape in the oven, and the acid keeps a sweet filling from tasting flat.

It is also the usual pick for blood-sugar-cautious eaters, and the honest version of that claim is modest: the tartness means slightly less sugar per bite than a Fuji — not a different food category, and not a medical claim. If you love the bite, it is a great everyday apple. If you have to sweeten it to enjoy it, the advantage evaporates.

Why Size Beats Variety

Now the worked example that matters more than the whole table above. Take two apples, both sold and labeled as “medium.” One weighs 160 g; the other, from a different bag or a different orchard, weighs 205 g. That is a 45 g difference — completely normal between stores, seasons and growers.

At about 0.57 kcal per gram, those 45 g are worth more than 25 kcal. Now compare the variety question: the entire spread between the lowest and highest variety in the table is just 6 kcal per 100 g (57 to 63). Even across 200 g of apple, switching from Fuji down to Gala saves you about 12 kcal — half the swing hiding inside a single “medium” label.

Farm stands and warehouse clubs push this further: their showpiece apples often run 230-250 g, which makes one fruit a 135 kcal snack wearing a 100 kcal reputation. Nobody needs to care about 35 kcal — unless they eat one every day and log it as a small apple every day.

One honest footnote to the weigh-in: you do not eat the core and seeds, which account for roughly 10% of a whole apple’s weight. If you weigh a 200 g apple, you eat about 180 g of it — which conveniently lands right back at the “medium” figures in the table for a typical store apple.

The kitchen rule follows: weigh one of your usual apples once, learn what your “medium” actually weighs, and then stop worrying about the variety column entirely. If you track food, log the weight when you can and the variety when you cannot — that estimate will beat any variety-level precision.

Apple vs Other Fruit

Two comparisons readers ask for most:

• Oranges and mandarins: the citrus family runs a little lighter per bite and brings serious vitamin C to the trade — see our guide to navel orange and mandarin nutrition for the side-by-side numbers.
• Honey: the opposite end of the sweet-fix spectrum — a single tablespoon carries 64 kcal (see honey calories), nearly two-thirds of a whole medium apple, with none of the fiber or chew. Fruit wins for volume eating almost every time.

The pattern generalizes: whole fruit gives you water, fiber and chewing time along with its sugar, which is why an apple at about 100 kcal satisfies in a way that 100 kcal of almost any sweetener, juice or syrup simply cannot. Juice an apple and you keep the sugar, lose most of the fiber, and finish it in thirty seconds instead of five minutes — same fruit, completely different snack.

Frequently Asked Questions

The bottom line: apple calories are a size story wearing a variety costume. Pick the apple you enjoy — Gala for mellow, Fuji for sweet, Honeycrisp for crunch, Granny Smith for bite — eat it unpeeled, and let the kitchen scale, used once, settle the numbers for good.