Negative calories

missylectro

What is this stuff I hear about celery having negative calories... What do people mean? Are they for real?

Hornsby

no

queenliz99

No, it ain't so.

Alatariel75

It's a myth that seems to have persevered that there are some foods that burn more calories being digested than you take in from eating them. It's a big load of hooey, but people tend to keep grasping at them.

rjmudlax13

What they mean is that some foods require more energy to digest than their actual content of unicorn poop.

zoeysasha37

No

CloudyMao

In the way it's used, no. Celery however is very low in calories, you burn a base amount of calories everyday by existing let's say for example you burn 2000kcal a day that's 83.3r kcal per hour, if you take an hour out of your day to eat 80kcal worth of celery ~(that's rather a lot of celery tbh) then that would see you burning more calories than you just ate during that period of time - but you are still taking in those calories & they will be used to give you energy for the functions that your body will continue to do.

georgebotley

Hi missylectro,

Unfortunately there is no scientific evidence to back up this statement. What they are referring to however, is a foods thermal effect, defined as being the amount of calorific expenditure to digest your food/drink. Celery is very light and bares around 6kcal per stalk. The body probably uses around 1-2kcal burning that off.

The only true 'negative-calorie' foods are in-fact liquids. Cold water is negative as the body is required to heat it to your core temperature - although the effects to lose any weight in this would take more than your lifetime I would imagine!!

I hope this clears that up?

rjmudlax13

In all seriousness, it has to do with the thermic effect of food. However, the thermic effect is part of the overall TDEE equation so it's not like you are gaining anything. Also, a food being negative calories is just flat out not true. It's just food that is very low Calorie per gram.

sweetdixie92

That's not even possible. Every food has at least some calories to it.

RoxieDawn

No such thing as negative calories. One stalk of celery has a few calories..

Ready2Rock206

It is something someone made up so they don't feel bad for stuffing themselves silly with fruits and veggies. All food has calories.

SLLRunner

missylectro wrote: »

What is this stuff I hear about celery having negative calories... What do people mean? Are they for real?

Everything has calories. Celery is low in calories, but it's got some.

SLLRunner

herrspoons wrote: »

Hmm... a substance that violates the law of energy conservation?

Seems legit.

Ineddeo!

neveragain84

The common, and correct, consensus here is that negative calories are a myth. Don't be suckered by people eating pounds upon pounds of celery. Every food, even vegetables, have calories. Eating above your calories in vegetables will make you gain weight just the same as with junk food.

TimothyFish

If you grow your own produce and raise your own beef, you could have some foods with negative calories, because you would burn more calories producing them than what they provide. I grew some corn that ended up with negative calories.

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SnuggleSmacks

I thought it was dill pickles that had the negative calories. Or was it coconut oil?

Alatariel75

SnuggleSmacks wrote: »

I thought it was dill pickles that had the negative calories. Or was it coconut oil?

I think it's dill pickles that are magically calorie free, even though cucumbers have calories, because Vlassic sets their serving size as 1/4 pickle, which is under 5 cal, so the FDA says they can round down on the label.

CloudyMao

SnuggleSmacks wrote: »

I thought it was dill pickles that had the negative calories. Or was it coconut oil?

coconut oil has saturated fat, so if you eat it you will get fat & die.

ndj1979

TimothyFish wrote: »

If you grow your own produce and raise your own beef, you could have some foods with negative calories, because you would burn more calories producing them than what they provide. I grew some corn that ended up with negative calories.

most ridiculous statement I have seen in a while….

SnuggleSmacks

But the vinegar causes the fats to be washed out of your system also. At least, that's what I heard. From a little girl in a grocery store, telling her brother. It was cute and sad at the same time.

CloudyMao

SnuggleSmacks wrote: »

But the vinegar causes the fats to be washed out of your system also. At least, that's what I heard. From a little girl in a grocery store, telling her brother. It was cute and sad at the same time.

That only works if you have buy my special vinegar fat break-down tea, it contains the active ingredient fastbustidol which breaks down all your bellyfat which you simply wee out. ONLY $90 A MONTH WOW

TimothyFish

ndj1979 wrote: »

TimothyFish wrote: »

If you grow your own produce and raise your own beef, you could have some foods with negative calories, because you would burn more calories producing them than what they provide. I grew some corn that ended up with negative calories.

most ridiculous statement I have seen in a while….

Yeah, well that's what I said about the corn when I saw how little it produced.

CloudyMao

TimothyFish wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

TimothyFish wrote: »

If you grow your own produce and raise your own beef, you could have some foods with negative calories, because you would burn more calories producing them than what they provide. I grew some corn that ended up with negative calories.

most ridiculous statement I have seen in a while….

Yeah, well that's what I said about the corn when I saw how little it produced.

The corn was so light on calories it completely flew over his head!

Liftng4Lis

negative.

missylectro

Lol that's what I thought

HeySwoleSister

ndj1979 wrote: »

TimothyFish wrote: »

If you grow your own produce and raise your own beef, you could have some foods with negative calories, because you would burn more calories producing them than what they provide. I grew some corn that ended up with negative calories.

most ridiculous statement I have seen in a while….

I thought it was rather witty.

RodaRose

I want to believe in magic

Alatariel75

Chewing your fingernails is negative calories, surely? Consuming something that's already a part of you, then expending the calories to process it... I might have hit on the next big thing! The nail biting diet!

Alluminati

Yes OP!! But only if you do this whilst eating...