List of Negative calorie Foods

mrscates

Free List of Negative calorie Foods

Negative Calorie Vegetables
Asparagus
Beet Root
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery Chicory
Hot Chili
Cucumber
Garden cress
Garlic
Green Beans
Lettuce
Onion
Radish
Spinach
Turnip
Zucchini

Negative Calorie Fruits
Apple
Blueberries
Cantaloupe
Cranberry
Grapefruit Honeydew
Lemon/Lime
Mango
Orange
Papaya
Peach Pineapple
Raspberry
Strawberry
Tomato
Tangerine
Turnip
Watermelon

dfront2

Hi, I see how you have met your goals!! Great!! I am starting out. My goal is 1 lb per week for the next 52 weeks. That would put me at 121 which would be perfect! I wanted to know how have you achieved your goals and how much you used myfitnesspal to accomplish it?

geedubwills

What do you mean by 'negative calorie'? Where does this come from? Those item ave calories in them>>>???

mafery

All foods have some calories. No food is actually “negative calorie” food. BUT the overall effect of certain foods in our body is that of “negative calories”. Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories the foods actually contain!

Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to breakdown and process. In other words, the body has to work harder in order to extract calories from these foods. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

http://healthrecipes.com/negative_calorie_foods.htm

MikeC11

I was just thinking the same thing lolol

Ive just googled the term Neg cal and i was greeted with this

"A negative calorie food is a food that is purported to require more calories to be digested than it provides. That is, its thermic effect is greater than its calorie content".

In simple terms, if eaten raw, it costs your body more calories digesting the food than the food has. so for example if you ate an 80 cal apple and your body burns 110 cals digesting it then you actually lose 30 cals

thats my interpretation of it anyway

kao708

The term "negative calories" is misleading and can sabatoge a person when trying to lose weight. Always make sure you log everything you eat because 10 servings of a low/no calorie food make alter the actual caloric value. You can't just eat all these "negative calorie" foods and expect to lose weight. I hope this doesn't mislead anyone.

time2move

So, in theory, you can eat as much of these foods as you want?

❤B☩❤

I love this list....and I am off to get some celery sticks now!

scott24

I sure wanted to see BBQ ribs on there... Oh, well. Great list!

MikeC11

I sure wanted to see BBQ ribs on there... Oh, well. Great list!

hahahaha great minds think alike lol

mrscates

Calorie is a unit of energy. The energy can be measured by many methods. The calories in foods depend on their composition and the calorie value of a food is not actually its measured values, but is the average energy of a large number of different samples of the food.

1 calorie = 4.184 joule
1 negative calorie = -4.184 joules
Commonly Calories refer to kilocalories.
1 kilocalorie (kcal) = 4.184 kilojoules (kJ)

Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories food actually contains! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though a food may contain equal amount of calories, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in negative calorie foods as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.


Consider the facts:

A piece of dessert consisting of 400 Calories (actually 400 kilocalories) may only require 150 Calorie (actually 150 kilocalories) to digest by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat !

On the other hand, a 5 calorie raw piece of celery will require much more calories to chew and digest, so resulting in a net loss of calories from our body fat !! It implies that the more you eat, the more you lose weight!!!

Therefore, these foods are said to be good for achieving weight loss naturally without starving.

How it works?


All foods have a nutrient (carbohydrate, fat, protein), caloric (calories) and vitamin & mineral content. Vitamins stimulate living tissues to produce enzymes that breakdown the caloric nutrients of that food.

The foods with negative calorie contain sufficient vitamins & minerals that produce enzymes in quantities sufficient to break down not only its own calories, but additional calories from body in digestion as well. This is called "negative calorie effect".

cjnorman

"Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human"

So I haven't gotten around to reading the book (sitting on my book shelf), but here is a podcast interview with the author. He says that while cooked food and raw food have the same calories our body can access more of the calories in cooked food. This was an advantage to ancient man because he could start spending less time on eating. My favorite part is when he discusses how rats got fat off eat puffed food pellets even though the pellet's calories hadn't changed. Just puffing the pellets increase the amount of calories the rats body could access.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200908285

PS: Don't listen to this at lunch time if you don't like hearing about medical procedures.