What foods are "negative calories"?

Question

ie they apparently require more energy to burn than they put into your system.

Is it true that eating them can actually contribute to weight loss?

Answer 1

That site says it all!

Answer 2

There is no such thing as negative calories. It's true that eating cucumber or celery may use more calories to eat it than it burns, but in the grand scheam of things it still has calories in it, which your body will utilise for it's everyday function.

It sounds good when you say 'negative calorie' but it really doesn't mean anything in the course of the day. A calorie is a calorie otherwise you could say eating a cream cake whilst running on a tread mill for an hour has negative calories in it.

Sorry, it's just a play on numbers to fool the naive dieter.

EDIT: Just think about water, no-one suggests that that is negative calorie, yet it contains 0 calories, and it MUST use calories in swallowing and sweating, urinating? So why does a food that DOES contain calories albeit only a few have this claim?

Answer 3

The only food that I know of with negative calories is celery. the reason for this anomalies is that you use more calories chewing the thing that there are in it. Yes this could help weight loss but boy would you get bored of eating things that take hours to chew with hardly any flavour. Try perhaps a more balanced diet with lots of taste then you are more likely to stick to it.

Answer 4

Sorry to disagree with some of you - certain foods do contain negative calories - that is, they take more calories to digest them than they contain in the first place. Of course, everything you consume has a calorie content but digestion uses calories. The most well know is celery.

Answer 5

NO its not true, its a complete fallacy.

There are no foods out there that actually have negative calories. Some have very little, like celery and lettuce. But there is nothing that has negative calories.

Answer 6

Fruits are not low in calories. Fruit has sugars in it, like strawberries are very high in sugar, and these sugars can turn into fat. So the sweeter the fruit the more sugar it has and the more potential to pile on the calories. Veggies however are very low in sugar, and low in calories. So your best bet would to eat carrots and spinach and things like that. Alos chew your food 36 times, thats bound to burn off those calories ;-)

Answer 7

Celery.

Answer 8

Believe it or not, eating celery actually burns more calories than it provides!

Answer 9

Konyaku - that's a kind of plant jelly and is very popular in Japanese cooking

Answer 10

supposably cellery as it is fibrous but otherwise water and therefore takes lots of energy to masticate and digest.

Answer 11

Anything with non-refined sugar