celery

MichelleZB
MichelleZB Posts: 28
edited September 20 in Food and Nutrition
My entire life I've heard that celery is a negative calorie, you burn more calories eating it than it gives you. Instead, when i put it on here it came up as 2 calories. Obviously it isn't a big deal at all and didn't change my daily food diary drastically, i was just curious which was true. :)

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  • karmasBFF
    karmasBFF Posts: 699 Member
    My entire life I've heard that celery is a negative calorie, you burn more calories eating it than it gives you. Instead, when i put it on here it came up as 2 calories. Obviously it isn't a big deal at all and didn't change my daily food diary drastically, i was just curious which was true. :)

    No such thing as a negative calorie food, not in the sense that these people try to sell these gimmick diets with!

    MFP has to count calories on everything and chewing is already accounted for in you TDEE.

    Hope this helps!

    I LOVE CELERY!
  • msarro
    msarro Posts: 2,748 Member
    Celery does take more calories to digest than it provides.
    http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/celery.asp

    However, the calories listed around the world are for the amount of calories that celery actually contains. Not the amount of calories burnt merely digesting.

    The one other thing I know of that is like this is ice water, because your body has to expend calories to warm it to body temperature.
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