ZERO calorie food?

I had Kraf fat free italian dressing on my salad at lunch and it was tasty, but my thought while I was eating it was this can't be real food.

There are two I can think of off hand.
Water.
Seltzer.

Like those no fat foods that have tons of sugar to make up for the taste? Read the whole label very carefully. Look at the serving size. Not kidding ... one time I noticed the croutons said 14. (I am talking about the fried ones you put into soup, not big salad ones. These are TINY.)

Also look at a serving size of Pam. It is like spraying for 2 seconds or something like that. How can that coat a pan?

http://www.waldenfarms.com/index.html

Is that what you found? Read the nutritional information. First ingredient. Water. Then a bunch of chemicals. Do you really want to put that into your body?

I read some of the different ones, and there were really only one or two chemicals, mostly thickeners. Granted, I didn't look at the ice cream sauces and sweet things -- just the dressings and sauces. They had spices and what not.

I've actually had some of the fruit spreads, and they taste pretty good!

I didn't buy any because to me it just seemed too weird. It is walden farms, after you said that I googled it and that is what it is. They actually looked good, but it says they have been around since 72, so I am thinking it must not be that good or it would of been popular enough that everyone would of heard of it by now

Very big, very popular here. (Southern Ontario) I have 3 flavors of their dressing in my fridge rightnow. I love them. They were actually recommended to me by my nutritionist.

And look at any commercial dressing, they're filled with the same stuff, plus fat and sugar.

Just read up on this product. It looks great. I want to get the dressings, chocolate spread and mayo. I live in Newmarket, Ontario. WHere did you see these products

Lemon juice + water + splenda = lemonade.

Too liquid? Freeze it and you get popsicles.

If you're talking REAL food, celery is great but it still has some calories.

Bolthouse Farms makes some very good salad dressings (fat/oil free) such as Oriental Ginger Balsamic Vinaigrette at 15cal per tbsp. My favourite is a Raspberry Merlot vinaigrette. It goes a looong way, that tbsp.

Without any nutritional value, is it still food? That's a point to be argued.

Mirii

... celery is great but it still has some calories.

I wanted to point this out because it's a cool fact about celery

"The common misconception is that celery contains "negative calories". All foods contain calories. The way you must look at it is how many calories does one stalk of celery contain, versus how many calories it takes to digest it. According to the nutrition data website one 8 inch celery stalk contain about 6 calories. Many people believe you actually burn that off when chewing. Though celery does take a rather conscious effort to chew, chewing burns about the same amount as watching the grass grow. The calorie loss is going to be during the digestion of the celery.

Celery is actually loaded with latent energy, but the plant's composition only allows us to metabolize a small amount. The latent energy is packed tightly in the form of cellulose; a complex sugar which humans are unable to metabolize. It's not that the celery is difficult to digest, but rather it provides fewer calories than what is needed to digest it - so the overall effect is "negative calories".

Keep in mind, the amount of calories you lose is very minimal. This is not the miracle diet food. The amount of calories lost will probably be no more than 10-12 calories a day. The good thing is celery can quickly satiate your hunger, preventing you from eating other high-calorie foods.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_true_that_celery_has_negative_calories#ixzz1iYknkvnU"

I like that I cant believe it's not butter spray, and diet soda is Zero calories...
Since reading reply's I would like to find and try some salad dressing...

While zero calorie food is good, always check the carb content. When losing weight carb is your arch ememy. Most of these 0-cal food has a lot of carb and all carbs are from sugar. So I would say beaware of those

You have to be careful with foods that state "zero calorie" because according to the FDA the manufacturer can rate the calories by portion so that if the product has less than a full calorie it can be rated as "zero" calorie. The problem is that when you start multiplying the servings, it actually adds up to calories. I don't know if this is the case here, but this was a good clue that I learned from weight watchers about being wary of "zero" calories. I hope this helps. Good luck to you.

I use zero calorie foods all the time! I love some of the products from Walden Farms and some of the Miracle Noodles varieties. I rarely use the products as they come. Instead, I "doctor them up" with extra herbs, spices, and/or other seasoning agents. I also use them in lots of my own recipe creations. One of my faves is my zero calorie spaghetti. In fact, I had it for dinner just last night! Low carb dieters who are more worried about carb grams than they are overall calorie content or fat grams can top the "pasta" with cheese or meat. It's really good!

http://habee.hubpages.com/hub/Zero-Calorie-Foods-Spaghetti

I joined another one of those "weight loss places" a couple of months ago (should of just threw my $$ out the window) anyway I had to buy the Walden farms items: Caesar dressing, Ranch Dressing, BBQ sauce and a few others I cant even remember but I personally did not like the taste at all....ended up throwing more money down the drain.