Have you heard about Negative Calorie Foods?

@Archie0 (5652)
January 31, 2013 5:29am CST
Hello mylotters, have anyone heard about negative calorie food? These are a type of fruits or vegetables that require calories in our body in order to digest. So when you eat them you burn your calories to make them digest in your system. Good enough? another weight loss benefit? Well i know few vegetables that help you do that. IF you have more of such keep adding them here so that we all know them and include some servings in our food. 1. Ice berg Lettuce 2.Cabbage 3.Broccoli 4.Cucumber Bring on more if you all have. Thanks and happy mylotting.
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Shasta
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
31 Jan 13
Guess I'm doing good then as I eat those particular veggies all the time. I did not know about their weight loss benefits. Thanks for sharing this information with us.
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Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
You are welcome cupkitties. I knew this from a very long time. But you know sometimes things just come up in your mind and then My lot is there.
WakeUpKitty
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
31 Jan 13
Yes I do: tomatoes garlic onions pineapple grape fruit asparagus horseradish cabbage beetroot celery and green tea
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
Great, thanks a lot. I am on a lot of garlic and green tea these days.
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
topffer thanks a lot for this great information. But we are not talking about which food has more or less calories. But we are talking, which food burns calories to digest than it will give us. but i will still do a research on this. Thanks a lot.
topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
31 Jan 13
Garlic has 138 kcal/100gr and is not a negative calories food, nor grape fruit.
Just an Ordinary Owl?
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
31 Jan 13
"Negative calorie" is a misnomer. What it means is that there are some foods which have fewer calories than it takes to digest them. Celery has long been considered to be an example of this. If water can be considered a food, then that truly has no calories and, if drunk cold, will actually use a few calories as our body warms it. Here is a comprehensive list of foods which are considered to be so low in calories that their net calorie content is little or nothing: http://www.livestrong.com/article/28647-list-negative-calorie-foods/
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
owlwings some foods are called A Negative Calorie food and not low calorie as you said so the reason for this is a negative calorie food is a food that is purported to require more calories to be digested than it provides. Just as i explained.
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
Also thanks for the link you provided. It would be good if you give some examples here of the veggies?
Mitraa
@Mitraa (3184)
• India
31 Jan 13
It is really a nice information for me! Because I like cabbage, cucumber and lettuce very much! Please post more information on this topic. Thanks for this nice posting.
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
Hi Mitraa thanks for liking this post. Well you can read the responses that we have got and we will be getting from our other fellows here. That will give you lot of gathered information. So stay tuned. Do Rate the topic if you like it.
dpk262006
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
31 Jan 13
Hi! It is a news to me that there are some vegetables like Lettuce, cabbage, broccoli and cucumber which when eaten help us burn calories in out body. It is winter season here in Delhi and cabbage, broccoli and cucumber are easily available and we keep adding these vegetables in our lunch/dinner. However, except cucumber we cook them before consuming. I think if these vegetables are taken raw (except perhaps broccoli)they will be more beneficial to us. Don't you think that radish and carrot will also fall in the same category? Good post.
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
I am not very sure, but yes Carrot also falls in negative calorie. But raddish i don't think they fall in anywhere.
dpk262006
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
31 Jan 13
So you could add 'carrot' to your list.
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Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
Yes absolutely
vanny
@vandana7 (100280)
• India
31 Jan 13
Hiya kiddo...thanks for this discussion...I need all that you and Wakeupkitty have to offer. :)
Archie0
@Archie0 (5652)
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31 Jan 13
What i realized is grapefruit is a negative calorie fruit. Where as i know since a very long time that garlic helps in reducing blood cholesterol and reduces wrinkles and acne if taken first thing in the morning when you wake up. Just 2 to 3 pods will do. But i am still unsure if Garlic is a negative calorie.
chiyochan
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
1 Feb 13
I have heard about this, i think though that it is a negative calorie but then it would have to be consumed in certain amounts... having a broccoli for a day won't really help if the next 4 days you will consume high calorie foods, right? =) But this would sound really nice if we manage to know a lot of variety of these foods (we know they are mostly fruits or vegetable) and take them according to schedule - a well planned one that is followed religiously.
ankit_620
@ankit_620 (496)
• India
31 Jan 13
I don't have any idea about whether there are some foods which have negative calories by which we digest better.But what i have heard that are certain foods which does burn your fat like green chillies in your diet.
Zer0Stats
@Zer0Stats (1147)
• India
2 Feb 13
As far as I know there are no negative calorie foods.Digestion of food is significantly less than even the lowest calorie food.Water is the only substance that contains zero calories.People are just going to have to accept the fact that they need to watch their calorie intake if they are after losing weight and do some exercise,instead of trying to find shortcuts all the way down the line.