Negative Calorie Foods List

December 19th, 2007 by

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OK, let’s be honest. There isn’t really such a thing as a negative calorie food. But there are foods which consume more energy when you eat them than they give you. They may be foods like lettuce that are almost completely water or they could be a food like celery which, when eaten raw, takes a lot more effort to eat than you’ll get back.

The idea of negative calorie foods is attractive. Many diets give you an “allowance” of other foods that you can eat in pretty much unlimited quantities.

The trouble with these foods is that, with a couple exceptions, they’re quite boring.

Sure, if you want your diet to live up to the “rabbit food” slur then you could munch your way through a plate full of lettuce. But without a nice dressing, it’s hardly going to seem attractive to eat on a regular basis.

If you’re fasting for the weekend or a day as part of a detox then these foods can come in handy. The thought of being able to eat something sweet like an apple or a bowl of strawberries could be just what you need to get through an otherwise uneventful time.

Whilst the thought of regularly using more calories to eat than you are eating is tempting, you need to be careful. If you do this too long, your body will start to eat away at your muscle. Which almost certainly isn’t what you intended when you started out on your diet.

But if you’re careful, adding negative calorie foods to your diet can be a useful way to bulk up your meals and stop you getting hunger pangs. You could easily nibble on a carrot as a snack between meals without feeling any guilt. So it’s definitely worth investigating these “miracle” foods further.

The list you can choose from includes: