Negative Calories

[Sexy Strawberry]

Did you know that some food has "negative calories"? This means that this food takes up more caloric energy to digest than the calories that are in it. So you are burning calories when you eat.


Here is a list:

Vegetables
Aspargus
Aubergine*
Broccoli
Cabbage*
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery*
Chicory
Cress*
Cucumber
Fennel*
Gourd*
Leek
Lettuce*
Marrow*
Peppers
Radish*
Spinach
Tomato*
Turnip

Fruits:
Apricot
Blackberry*
Blackcurrant
Clementines
Damsons
Grapefruit
Guava*
Honeydew Melon
Lemon*
Mandarin orange
Melon Canteloupe*
Peaches
Plums
Raspberry*
Rhubarb**
Strawberry
Tangerine
Watermelon

* indicates very good negative calorie foods

** Indicates excellent negative calories but stewed without added sugar


Taken from:
http://www.weightlossforall.com/negative-c...-foods-list.htm (http://www.weightlossforall.com/negative-calorie-foods-list.htm)
Here is another list and details about them:
http://www.healthrecipes.com/negative_calo...lories_list.htm (http://www.healthrecipes.com/negative_calories_list.htm)

[meliz]

Hey SS, you forgot to post the list of chocolate food stuffs with negative cals.:)

[Sexy Strawberry]

Awww lol! I wish that chocolate with negative calories existed! I love chocolate more than any other food in the world :D

[heather6773]

sounds good to me. I like pretty much everything on the lists...:lick:and the chocolate should be added...maybe under misc. foods???;)

[Time Traveler]

Mmmmmmm,, Strawberries,,,, Does the whipped cream count in the carbs,, maybe if I added a nice wedge of NY Cheese Cake,, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Somebody Stop Me!!!!! :eyebrow: