Apples...a zero calorie food??

AgidGirl

I recently bought 60 pounds of apples and have been looking for yummy low-calorie ways to eat them. I ran across a recipe for ZERO CALORIE crust-less apple pie. The person wrote on the recipe:

'When I first found out Apples were a "free food" meaning of course that it takes more energy to digest the apple, than the calories it provides, I was so excited.'

I'm still going to track each apple I eat here on MFP. I usually don't track things like celery but, I have a 1 pound honeycrisp apple and I find it hard to believe that it's zero calories...thoughts??

cheryldumais

Definately not zero calories! Lots of sugar in apples and while they are very good for you they are not free. Weight Watchers allows free fruit but they cut you back in other areas. Count the calories and enjoy the healthy snack.

janejellyroll

It's hard to believe because it's not true.

cityruss

No.

cwolfman13

AgidGirl wrote: »

I recently bought 60 pounds of apples and have been looking for yummy low-calorie ways to eat them. I ran across a recipe for ZERO CALORIE crust-less apple pie. The person wrote on the recipe:

'When I first found out Apples were a "free food" meaning of course that it takes more energy to digest the apple, than the calories it provides, I was so excited.'

I'm still going to track each apple I eat here on MFP. I usually don't track things like celery but, I have a 1 pound honeycrisp apple and I find it hard to believe that it's zero calories...thoughts??

There's no such thing as a zero calorie food. A zero calorie food would require a TEF of 100% and there is no such food. Protein has the highest TEF and depending on source can be as much as 30%...but that's pretty much the highest.

Trying to take a food and quantify how many calories you're actually absorbing is majoring in the minors...just log it...it's not "free food"...one medium apple has 95 calories with most of those coming from sugar...you're not burning 95 calories digesting an apple...you will not absorb all of those calories, but you will absorb most of them and trying to quantify how much is an exercise in futility...

Ready2Rock206

There are no zero calorie foods - that burning more than it takes to digest nonsense is complete BS. An Apple easily has 100 or more calories - your 1 lb apple will be significantly more than that. Weigh and track everything.

everyusernamewastakenso

I don't think they mean it 100% zero calories free. My guess is that it taste so good and has very few calories compared to other desserts it might as well be considered zero calorie.

TeaBea

No - there aren't free foods. This is woo. The closest you will come - lettuce, celery, cucumber, dill pickles....but not fruit.

kristen8000

No. Apples are actually pretty high in calories, depending on the size of the apple. We bought some honeycrisp the other day that were huge (as in share with someone big) and I'd say the whole thing would have over 200 calories.

Log everything.

DX2JX2

everyusernamewastakenso wrote: »

I don't think they mean it 100% zero calories free. My guess is that it taste so good and has very few calories compared to other desserts it might as well be considered zero calorie.

Unfortunately, I think they might mean that they think apples are a zero-calorie food. I'm not sure if they still do it, but Weight Watchers allowed people to eat all of the raw fruits and vegetables they could handle and not have it count against their point totals.

Carlos_421

The person writing that recipe is clueless

janejellyroll

everyusernamewastakenso wrote: »

I don't think they mean it 100% zero calories free. My guess is that it taste so good and has very few calories compared to other desserts it might as well be considered zero calorie.

OP quoted this from the recipe: "When I first found out Apples were a 'free food' meaning of course that it takes more energy to digest the apple, than the calories it provides, I was so excited." The person who wrote the recipe is clearly under the impression that apples are functionally zero calories.

AgidGirl

Here's a link to the blog...zero calorie life. Lot's of 'zero calorie' recipes. Ima keep on tracking everything ;-) http://zerocalorielife.blogspot.com/

mitch16

While there are some foods that I don't track because the number of calories are fairly low per serving (e.g., vitamins, chewing gum, a couple breath mints), one pound of apples is far from a zero calorie food.

stevencloser

AgidGirl wrote: »

Here's a link to the blog...zero calorie life. Lot's of 'zero calorie' recipes. Ima keep on tracking everything ;-) http://zerocalorielife.blogspot.com/

Yeah, as people said there's no such thing. So none of the recipes are actually "free". Unless there's a recipe for a glass of water.

EatingAndKnitting

Recipe makers don't always know what they are talking about. I found a "sugar free" dessert on Pinterest that looked good so I looked at the recipe (diabetic, so finding truly sugar free desserts is always welcome).

It called for honey and agave syrup - both sugars.

Need2Exerc1se

Is this a serious question? No. Apples have calories.

Maybe that person was doing Weight Watchers.

Graelwyn75

No food is totally calorie free and the whole 'free food' concept seems a risky business to me given some people could munch their way through a thousand calories of fruit and still not be full.

I have a large apple a day as part of my dessert and always log the calories. I mean, sure, it would be nice if it did not add over 100 calories to my daily goal, but oh well.

Eaglesfanintn

Not zero, but a good idea that I'm going to try this weekend.

Sarahb29

Honestly you're better off dumping 59lbs of them in the woods and bagging yourself a deer with them than eating 60lbs of apples to yourself at once.

bagge72

These recipes are from 2013, this sounds like something that was all the rage then! It's still low calorie recipes, but I still wouldn't call that apple pie!

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SezxyStef

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

Is this a serious question? No. Apples have calories.

Maybe that person was doing Weight Watchers.

wasn't really the question tho...

The question was does eating and digesting the apple negate the calories it does have and the answer is

No...

GottaBurnEmAll

Well, the question's already been answered so I won't say anything about that.

I will, however, say that I'm jealous of all of you who are getting in the really good Honeycrisps. So far, the ones that have shown up locally have been pretty small and beat up looking. Still tasty, but slim pickings.

amyepdx

I bought 2 nice ones last night but I'm in Oregon so that helps!
They are large so each is 2 servings lol - oh wait that's for a different thread!

Lounmoun

No apples are not zero calorie.
I would definitely log them.

AgidGirl

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

Well, the question's already been answered so I won't say anything about that.

I will, however, say that I'm jealous of all of you who are getting in the really good Honeycrisps. So far, the ones that have shown up locally have been pretty small and beat up looking. Still tasty, but slim pickings.

I won't tell you that I bought 60 pounds of HUGE and perfect Honeycrisps for $.50/lbs then

TavistockToad

AgidGirl wrote: »

Here's a link to the blog...zero calorie life. Lot's of 'zero calorie' recipes. Ima keep on tracking everything ;-) http://zerocalorielife.blogspot.com/

That's the saddest thing I have ever seen...

RoxieDawn

AgidGirl wrote: »

Here's a link to the blog...zero calorie life. Lot's of 'zero calorie' recipes. Ima keep on tracking everything ;-) http://zerocalorielife.blogspot.com/

I hope that newbies to MFP that may find their way to this thread do not misunderstand this.

Of course when I saw it myself I had to look, not sure what to say honestly except .. just no!

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macclone

Eat raw broccoli. It is close to being a free food.