Negative calorie foods

Thomasm198

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

I dare you to eat nothing but those items but eat more than your maintenance calorie allowance and then tell us if they are negative calorie. :flowerforyou:

SlightlyMadman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food

There's never been any evidence to support their existence.

There's never been any evidence that Wikipedia is accurate. Just sayin'

Ok, then look at it this way: you ever seen an animal that eats only vegetables (herbivore)? If vegetables were "negative calorie" then these animals would all starve to death.

ruffnstuff

If a calorie = a unit of energy, then negative calories = negative energy. You find that and you've got yourself a time machine, i think.

Don't forget the flux capacitor.

_Zardoz_

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

The bold bit is the important bit

qwicherbytchin

It's evident that very few people read my post in its entirety. I DID state that I record them, I record everything, it was just a question.

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Thomasm198

It's evident that very few people read my post in its entirety. I DID state that I record them, I record everything, it was just a question.

So it was a rhetorical question?

Derpes

"I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time."

No_Finish_Line

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

JoRocka

They don't exist.

See above

This.

Sorry, OP but those are just a pipe dream.

Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

<and the more you know>>>>>>

actually that is cool- I did learn something today!

omgherrrrdddd

thank you.

WakkoW

You have obviously found out now that negative calorie foods are just a myth.

While I log everything, I'm not as careful about my accuracy on the very low calorie foods. I really like munching on raw vegetables and will usually guesstimate. One cup of raw cauliflower is only about 25 calories and a large stalk of celery is 10 calories.

Slacker16

A food could be considered to have negative calorie if it is cold enough that the energy required to maintain body temperature after ingesting it is greater than the energy that it provides.

Brb, publishing book on liquid nitrogen diet. Gun be rich.

No_Finish_Line

if something is zero or near zero, like a pickel or black coffee, i don't bother logging it


only really care about tracking calories and protein.

SlightlyMadman

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

Dude, there's a food calorie database right on this website. Try looking things up before you say things. A medium dill pickle has 12 calories. That's not very many, but still a lot more than zero.

No_Finish_Line

A food could be considered to have negative calorie if it is cold enough that the energy required to maintain body temperature after ingesting it is greater than the energy that it provides.

Brb, publishing book on liquid nitrogen diet. Gun be rich.

that too. probably ice woudl be the only thing that would require more energy to heat then it provides in nutrition.

that and frozen pickels lol

oregonzoo

sure
You should always log figments of your imagination.


Just do quick add. Minus eleventy billion calories.

Nedra19455

I don't log (most) raw fruits and vegetables because I need an incentive to include more of them in my diet. I know that I'd be tempted to just scan the bar code of a low cal processed food for a snack if I had to go through the trouble of weighing every strawberry or carrot stick I eat.

But that's a personal choice.

As others in these threads have said, I would never come on here after reaching a plateau and claim that I was doing everything "perfectly." If I ever stop losing weight, logging more accurately will be the first thing I do. :flowerforyou:

madhatter2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food

There's never been any evidence to support their existence.

There's never been any evidence that Wikipedia is accurate. Just sayin'

Ok, then look at it this way: you ever seen an animal that eats only vegetables (herbivore)? If vegetables were "negative calorie" then these animals would all starve to death.

LOL YES!!! Now that's using them bananas.

WakkoW

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

Dude, there's a food calorie database right on this website. Try looking things up before you say things. A medium dill pickle has 12 calories. That's not very many, but still a lot more than zero.

The labels on many jars of pickles read zero calories.. I assume it is because they are smaller, but that is probably were the poster got his/her information from..

No_Finish_Line

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

Dude, there's a food calorie database right on this website. Try looking things up before you say things. A medium dill pickle has 12 calories. That's not very many, but still a lot more than zero.

thats basically zero, saw lower calorie readings on the internet. also learned how to spell pickle lol.

anyway, the ice awght to do it, not sure that counts as food

No_Finish_Line

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

Dude, there's a food calorie database right on this website. Try looking things up before you say things. A medium dill pickle has 12 calories. That's not very many, but still a lot more than zero.

The labels on many jars of pickles read zero calories.. I assume it is because they are smaller, but that is probably were the poster got his/her information from..

thank you, and might i say how welcome that poster's pointless indignation was

NextPage

Even if this were true (which I doubt is true for even one item), the logic is lost on me. All activities have some caloric "cost" including sleeping but I'm sure you don't count sleeping as exercise. If you did this with food in order to be consistent you would have to deduct the thermic effect of the none "negative" items to ensure you didn't inflate their calories. Why not deduct the extra "cost" of hard to chop vegetables (I work up a pretty good sweat tackling a large turnip:laugh: ). Sounds both complicated and totally not helpful for health or weight loss.

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

LessHeavyVeggie

They don't exist.

See above

This.

Sorry, OP but those are just a pipe dream.

Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

The things you learn on mfp..! Favourite comment in a while! :flowerforyou:

Muddy_Yogi

What????? Did you watch Dr Oz ????

PikaKnight

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

Dude, there's a food calorie database right on this website. Try looking things up before you say things. A medium dill pickle has 12 calories. That's not very many, but still a lot more than zero.

There are pickles that are said to be 0 calories per the nutritional label.

The thing to remember is that it isn't actually 0 calories. If it is less than 5 calories for the whole thing, then it can be put as zero calories on the labels.

firfeous

Tang

I'm not a fan of Tang myself...

No_Finish_Line

freeze that fu(king pickle and we'll see what it nets out to lol

DeadliftAddict

Somebody has been reading the internet.

SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish

Of course negative calorie foods exist. For this express situation: I made my chicken sautee dish with all the right ingredients, but beef instead of chicken. So add one portion of "chicken sautee", plus one portion of negative chicken breast and one portion of beef and I'm done for my MFP calorie tracker

The food question on pickles is definitely a labeling trick: they are allowed to put zero calories because the calories in a "serving" are under 10 for the whole serving. Just like they are allowed to put zero trans fats if its .49g trans fats in a "serving". One good example here is "I can't believe its not butter", which is "zero calories/serving". But, how many calories does a bottle of 0 calorie "I can't believe it's not butter" have?....900 calories :P

cmcollins001