zero calories?
jerseygirl777
Posts: 148
So I have really been wondering lately about these items. Are these items really 0 calories? And how many servings do you have before it actually accumulates calories? Items I am referring to are: splenda, sparkling flavored water, pickles, diet drinks. And I am not assuming they are 0 calories, just that the label says 0 calories. I just find it weird something can actually be labeled as 0 calories! Any insight?
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Even though they say 0 calories, some of these things still have sodium that needs to be counted0
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0 cals (per serving), but things like cooking spray etc if you use enough you do accumulate some calories, but diet drinks and waters really are just water and chemicals, nothing I would imagine would have any calories in it, it depends on what you are talking about0
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Pickles do not have 0 calories. Depending on the type of pickle they generally have between 5 and 20 calories per serving.0
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Love pickles but have really cut back because of the huge amount of sodium in most of them. :grumble:0
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some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip0 -
Some pickles have zero calories indeed. Watch the sodium though!0
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I've wondered how it can be. My jar of pickles says zero calories for 3 baby dills. A cucumber has calories so I wondered where these calories went in the pickling process. I guess the calories would be very low considering that a whole cucumber (8 inches) is only 34 calories, but it doesn't seem to add up that it would be zero. I also wonder about those zero calorie salad dressings and other Walden Farms items.0
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if something has less than 5 calories, they are allowed to say it has zero calories. splenda for example is marketed as a zero calorie sweetener, but it has 4 calories per packet. I don't think anything is truly zero calories besides water, just some things are so low it doesn't really matter unless you have mass amounts of it. everything adds up eventually.0
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I've wondered how it can be. My jar of pickles says zero calories for 3 baby dills. A cucumber has calories so I wondered where these calories went in the pickling process. I guess the calories would be very low considering that a whole cucumber (8 inches) is only 34 calories, but it doesn't seem to add up that it would be zero. I also wonder about those zero calorie salad dressings and other Walden Farms items.
Exactly what I don't understand! Only some brands of pickles I get say 0 cal. And I also saw a spray butter that said 0 cal. I just can't imagine a whole container of something equaling 0 calories!0 -
Be careful of the negative calories thing. That's a nice, tasty myth. It also assumes that what you're eating is fresh, raw and unseasoned.0
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Also, "negative" calories is a mis-name because they STILL HAVE (a positive number of) CALORIES. They are just used up in your "daily existence" calorie burning. I don't know the proper term for it, but it is the 1200 that MFP uses as a base. Basically, what you burn just by existing
If you were to eat nothing but celery, you would lose weight, but it is not healthy. And fruits still have sugars and other things you have to watch
About the "zero" calories - unless you are having a lot of it, I think you should be fine
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Splenda has 3.3 calories a packet. Doesn't seem like a lot, but when you use 16 packets a day, like I do, it add's up. Usually anything that's under 5 calories a serving is allowed to say zero calories.
ETA: brittneyr8, I just saw you said the same thing.0 -
Companys can label it as zero if it has less than 4 calories. But obviously, your not going to accumulate that many calories with these products unless your consuming it all day. XP0
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some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
This is 'a load' nothing has negative calories except water. If you eat too many calories of anything you're going to gain weight, whether it be butter or apples. You'll just be able to eat a lot more apples than the butter. Everything has calories and they all add up.0 -
some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
Unfortunately it is a myth, there are no foods that take up more calories to digest than they contain.
Oranges contain on average 80 calories, it does NOT take 81 calories to digest an orange, it takes approximately 30% of those calories to digest it, leaving 70% of the calories still in the body. The same goes for the other foods.
People think they can eat certain foods and it will enable them to lose weight, the long and the short of it is calories in -v- calories out. No short cuts, no easy way.
It needs to be recognised that to lose weight, it will take focus and a mental approach that is not lazy.0 -
Would it be safe to call a jar of pickles 75 cals if there are 15 servings at "0" cals each? I'm just substituting the 0 for 5.
Jw because I just ate a jar of pickles (I know that much salt is bad but I can't help it)0 -
Personally I would stay away from any 'diet drink' as it is full of chemicals and bad for you body. Water is best and has zero calories if that is what you are concerned about. Eat lots of vegetables, fruit ( Berries are good) and lean protein.
I like putting in 2 cups of frozen raspberries in a big jug of water and let the fruit soak over night. Great tasting water and no calories! (Try lemons, oranges, blueberries)0 -
some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
Nooooooooo!!! All these foods have calories. Quit spreading nonsense.0 -
some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
could you tell uis where you got this list?0 -
Companys can label it as zero if it has less than 4 calories. But obviously, your not going to accumulate that many calories with these products unless your consuming it all day. XP
This is the answer. there are a lot of little tricks that are allowed with labeling; they don't do harm as long as you don't pig out on the product.0 -
Yeah like those 2 pickles I enjoyed...put me over my sodium...if I only would of just said no.
Pickles get me every time....it all started when I was pregnant with my now 6 yo. I'd have a pickle, a glass of milk and a cheese stick for dinner.
I told my husband....no more pickles! To me they are like Lay's potato chips...no one can have just one.0 -
i had challenged myself to nix the monsters and needed a carbonated drink. Switched to Sparkling Ice carbonated water. its got a bunch of zeros on it, including the sodium. Im figuring it to be about 5 per bottle but really its just water.0
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some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
Unfortunately it is a myth, there are no foods that take up more calories to digest than they contain.
Oranges contain on average 80 calories, it does NOT take 81 calories to digest an orange, it takes approximately 30% of those calories to digest it, leaving 70% of the calories still in the body. The same goes for the other foods.
People think they can eat certain foods and it will enable them to lose weight, the long and the short of it is calories in -v- calories out. No short cuts, no easy way.
It needs to be recognised that to lose weight, it will take focus and a mental approach that is not lazy.
^^ yep. this list is completely ridiculous. there are plenty of those foods that are LOW in calories (but should still be counted) but some of the fruits, especially mango and pineapple, are much higher in calories than others.0 -
Be careful with pickles - the ones I have are 2-4 servings PER PICKLE (depending on 1/2 to whole pickle). So 20 calories per whole pickle. Eat the whole jar and that can start adding up quickly.0
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some foods have negative amount of calories too because it takes more energy to eat the food than the foods itself. so eat as much (welll not as much) but enough to make you full of any of these foods :] hope this helps.
Fruits
apple
cranberries
grapefruit
lemon
mango
orange
pineapple
raspberries
strawberries
tangerine
Vegetables
asparagus
beet
broccoli
cabbage (green)
carrot
cauliflower
celery
Chile peppers (hot)
cucumber
dandelion
endive
garden cress
garlic
green beans
lettuce
onion
papaya
radishes
spinach
turnip
wrong. so not true. there are no negative calorie foods. dream on.0 -
i just realized we are all responding to a post from 2010...0
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those types of foods do burn pretty fast and are so very low in calories, but to call them a negative food is just misleading. The bonus about most of them is that they are very filling with a low calorie number.0
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i just realized we are all responding to a post from 2010...
There is an evil dead thread bumper among us. Find the culprit!!!!!0 -
i just realized we are all responding to a post from 2010...
There is an evil dead thread bumper among us. Find the culprit!!!!!
is it ironic that her name here is BELATEDLY ?!?! LOL0 -
i just realized we are all responding to a post from 2010...
There is an evil dead thread bumper among us. Find the culprit!!!!!
is it ironic that her name here is BELATEDLY ?!?! LOL
:laugh: That is fantastic.0
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