negative calorie foods

roxinsox

So I've been hearing a lot lately about negative calorie foods, such as asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, celery, apples, berries, grapefruit, etc. How much stock do you put in this?

My grandmother gave me a recipe for a soup that is negative calorie, which I never count the calories for since theoretically eating it allows me to burn calories, but I'm confused because on MFP when I log carrots it tells me that they are worth calories. Does anyone know more about this?

roxinsox

So I've been hearing a lot lately about negative calorie foods, such as asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, celery, apples, berries, grapefruit, etc. How much stock do you put in this?

My grandmother gave me a recipe for a soup that is negative calorie, which I never count the calories for since theoretically eating it allows me to burn calories, but I'm confused because on MFP when I log carrots it tells me that they are worth calories. Does anyone know more about this?

abbychelle07

I think Weight Watchers technically has some veggie soups and other foods that are considered "0 points." However, I count the calories. All of those things are usually low-calorie, and full of fiber which is great. Hurrah for eating tons of fruits and veggies!

REB89

the idea of neagtive calorie foods is that you burn more chewing them than there are claories in them therefore, i dont really think it would count if they are all liquidised into a soup! Plus there is no proof that there is such thing as a negative caloire food (at least i don't hink so!) although they are great to snack on as they are very low in calories. personally though i would still track all the vegetables becase lots of 5 calorie things add up!

Life_is_Good

Raw celery - your body burns more calories digesting it than it actually contains... that's about all I know on the subject

kerrilucko

it's true some foods burn m ore being digested than they contain (like celery) but they still contain calories. Think of it this way, a food has 30 cals, but it takes 30 cals to properly digest it. So that makes zero. BUT calories burned during digestion is simply a part of the process. If you're eating a food with 200 cals, and it takes 30 cals to digest it, you don't enter the food as 170 do you? No, you still enter it as 200. Does that make any sense?

slieber

Sorry - couldn't resist:

"Celery raw exercises the jaw
Celery stewed is more quietly chewed..."

Almost all veggies are "no count" on WW. I assume it's because the calorie count vs. calorie burn is either close to each other or in the negative. The soup's the same - I do the no-count soup and actually do end up losing weight when I eat it. The liquid plus the veg, which still gets chewed, probably helps.

kingon8

negative calorie foods are typically foods that are high in fiber. fiber is hard to digest, so the body uses more calories trying to digest them than, like everyone said, are actually in them. I do believe in them, and I never count them in my meals.