Do you believe in negative calories? If so what are your thoughts on it?

Answer 1

When we say nagative calorie food, we mean foods which contain so little energy that the body actually uses more energy to digest and absorb the nutrients. So if you subtract calories you'll burn from the calories you eat, the result will be negative. Only by digesting the food you have eaten, there will be a net loss of energy or a negative energy balance.

Here is a list of foods that have negative calories.

Vegetables

Fennel, aubergine, gourd, broccoli, leek, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, marrow, cauliflower, peppers, celery, radish, chicory, spinach, cress, tomato, cucumber, turnip.

Fruits

Apricot, mandarin orange, blackberry, melon canteloupe, blackcurrant, peaches, clementines, plums, damsons, raspberry, grapefruit. rhubarb, guava, strawberry, honeydew melon, tangerine, lemon, watermelon.

Answer 2

The digestion process requires energy. If the caloric yield of the food is not enough to replace this energy, then the function is that of having negative calories.

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Answer 3

there are negative calorie foods. celery is a good example of one. It takes you more calories to chew up a stick of celery than there is in the celery.