What to eat to lose weight? This issue has not lost its relevance for several decades. However, this is not unusual: the desire to achieve high results with a minimum of effort is inherent in many. For the same reason, interest in the issue of negative calorie foods has not faded for a long time, the consumption of which, as is commonly believed, contributes to the emergence of an energy deficit in the body. In this article, we will try to figure out whether such products really exist and what role they play in the fight against excess weight.
Negative Calorie Foods: Fiction and Truth
Products with a negative calorie content are called vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices, the energy value of which only slightly covers the energy expenditure of the body for their processing (chewing) and digestion. At the same time, the very concept of negative calorie content is conditional: almost all products belonging to this group contain components that can be converted into energy (proteins, fats, organic acids, carbohydrates).
There are a number of myths surrounding negative calorie foods and their role in weight loss.
- Myth 1: the digestion of foods belonging to this group requires more energy resources than they are able to give the body, which means that their regular consumption contributes to the formation of a pronounced energy deficit. In fact, this statement is true only for some products with zero calorie content (water, unsweetened green tea). Protein food loses only 35-40% of its calorie content during digestion, carbohydrate - 4-6%, and fatty - no more than 10%.
- Myth 2: Eating high-calorie and negative-calorie foods at the same time will help you avoid obesity. In fact, the inclusion in the diet of products belonging to the group under consideration does not contribute to the formation of an energy deficit in the body and does not help burn excess calories obtained by consuming sweets, fats and other foods with high energy value.
- Myth 3: Negative calorie foods are natural fat burners. In fact, products belonging to this group do not have fat-burning properties. With their help, you can lose weight, but only due to their low calorie content, the ability to speed up metabolic processes and normalize the digestive system.
What foods have negative calories?
The list of negative calorie foods includes:
- greens;
- vegetable crops;
- fruit;
- berries;
- spices;
- some drinks.
A more detailed list of products belonging to this group and information about their energy value are presented in the table.
| List of negative calorie foods | Energy value of 100 g of product (in kcal) |
| Vegetables, greens | |
| 9,8 | |
| Chinese cabbage | 11,4 |
| Leafy green lettuce | 13,9 |
| cucumbers | 14,3 |
| tomatoes | 14,8 |
| Zucchini | 15,6 |
| Rhubarb | 16,3 |
| lettuce | align="center">16,6 |
| Endive | 16,9 |
| Oriental radish (daikon) | 17,4 |
| Squash | 18,2 |
| Radish | 19,1 |
| Asparagus | 19,7 |
| Chicory | 20,1 |
| Spinach | 20,7 |
| green onion | 21,3 |
| eggplant | 23,7 |
| Bell pepper | 24,1 |
| Sorrel | 24,4 |
| Arugula | 24,7 |
| Zucchini | 26,1 |
| savoy cabbage | 26,3 |
| Turnip | 27,2 |
| White cabbage | 27,4 |
| artichokes | 27,8 |
| Pumpkin | 27,8 |
| Turnip | 27,9 |
| Broccoli | 27,9 |
| Cauliflower | 28,4 |
| red cabbage | 30,7 |
| Watercress | 31,3 |
| red carrot | 32,4 |
| radish | 33,6 |
| Cheremsha | 33,8 |
| Garlic | 33,9 |
| seaweed nori | 34,1 |
| Swede | 36,4 |
| Onion | 39,2 |
| Hot red pepper | 39,7 |
| young dandelion leaves | 44,8 |
| Beet | 47,9 |
| ginger root | 78,7 |
| Thyme fresh | 99,4 |
| Rosemary | 129,7 |
| Fruit | |
| limes | 15,3 |
| Lemons | 23,1 |
| cherry plum | 29,4 |
| carambola | 30,4 |
| melons | 31,8 |
| pomelo | 33,1 |
| grapefruit | 34,7 |
| Quince | 37,1 |
| tangerines | 37,7 |
| oranges | 39,1 |
| Peaches | 42,4 |
| plums | 42,9 |
| Apples | 44,8 |
| apricots | 47,4 |
| pineapples | 47,6 |
| Papaya | 47,9 |
| Kiwi | 49,1 |
| Mango | 58,2 |
| Berries | |
| Lemongrass | 10,8 |
| watermelons | 24,7 |
| viburnum | 25,7 |
| Cranberry | 27,2 |
| Barberry | 28,1 |
| Honeysuckle | 29,4 |
| Sea buckthorn | 29,4 |
| Strawberry | 29,7 |
| Cloudberry | 29,8 |
| Blackberry | 32,1 |
| Blueberry | 36,4 |
| Cowberry | 39,6 |
| Currant | 39,8 |
| Blueberry | 39,8 |
| strawberries | 40,2 |
| Raspberry | 40,8 |
| Gooseberry | 42,9 |
| Dogwood | 43,3 |
| Rowan | 43,4 |
| Spices, spices, seasonings | |
| Tarragon | 24,1 |
| Coriander | 24,6 |
| Oregano | 24,8 |
| Basil | 26,6 |
| Dill | 39,8 |
| Parsley | 44,6 |
| Mint | 48,7 |
| Melissa | 48,9 |
| Beverages | |
| Pure water | |
| Mineral water | |
| Green tea unsweetened | 0,1 |
| Unsweetened black coffee | 1,1 |
| Instant drink from chicory | 10,4 |
- Nutritionists strongly recommend that you include at least 400 g of low-calorie fruits, herbs, berries and vegetables in your diet every day. Compliance with this recommendation allows you to reduce and stabilize weight, provide the body with vitamins, minerals, fiber and other vital substances.
- Negative calorie foods are best eaten raw. Salads made from greens, vegetables and fruits are not recommended to be seasoned with too fatty or sweet sauces.
- Heat treatment of products belonging to the group under consideration should be minimal. The most useful ways to cook dishes from vegetables, berries, herbs and fruits are steaming, boiling and baking. For frying vegetables, it is advisable to use vegetable oil, and not animal fats or margarine.
- Under no circumstances should you limit your diet to negative calorie foods - they should be just one element of a balanced and healthy diet. The daily menu must also include other products (fish, milk, cereals and legumes, eggs, poultry, meat, etc.). Only complete and proper nutrition helps to effectively and quickly get rid of extra pounds, strengthen immunity, speed up metabolism and normalize the digestive tract.
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Not getting better from a lot of food, but losing weight is the dream of many people with a good appetite, dissatisfied with their figure, but not wanting to exhaust themselves with diets and workouts. The term “negative calorie content”, which has recently become the talk of the town, caresses the ear, making you believe in the realization of this dream. If there are only products containing “minus x” calories, you will surely be able to lose extra pounds while remaining full. Do such exist?
What is a negative calorie
Everything we do needs energy. Even just lying on the couch, we spend it on the heartbeat, breathing, information processing. Even more of it is needed to move. It is vital for us - it is an axiom.
The body receives energy from food. Anything that contains proteins, fats or carbohydrates provides us with calories. Most of them give us fats, least of all - proteins.
However, in order to get energy from what you eat or drink, the body needs to work hard. Energy is spent chewing and digesting food. If the body spends more calories on the assimilation of any products than they contain, then the final energy balance will be negative. Conventionally, such food can be called food with a negative calorie content.
How much energy does the body use to digest food?
The body spends an unequal amount of time and effort on the digestion of various products. The easiest way for him to absorb "fast" carbohydrates: sugar, rice, pasta, cakes, pastries, buns, etc. They require very little energy to digest, so about 93 - 96% of the calories received from them will be in the net balance. A little more energy will be spent by the body on the processing of fats - about 5 - 10% of what they contain. Much higher energy costs for the assimilation of protein foods - from 30 to 40% of its calorie content. It is most difficult for the body to digest foods containing fiber: the more it is, the higher the energy consumption.
Some believe that vegetables and fruits, which are high in fiber, require more calories to digest than they contain. This is a common misconception. It is difficult to accuse nature of madness: everything that she created for food nourishes, and does not take away strength. If grass had a negative calorie content, then many animals that only eat grass would not be able to survive. The assumption that there are foods that burn calories but bring nothing in return is absurd. In the literal sense, there are no negative calorie foods, just as there is no food that takes more energy to digest than is obtained from it.
But food, the absorption of which takes almost as many calories as it contains, exists. We will traditionally call it products with a negative calorie content, although it would be correct to call them low-calorie.
Negative calorie rating
Foods that require almost as much energy to digest as the body receives with them include most vegetables and fruits, berries, citrus fruits, and some drinks (water, green tea).
- Celery (stalk) - 10 kcal.
- Lemongrass - 11 kcal.
- Salad - 14 kcal.
- Cucumbers, zucchini, lime, rhubarb - 15 - 16 kcal.
- Squash, asparagus, radish, spinach, chicory - 19 - 21 kcal.
- Tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, green onions, pumpkin, sorrel, watermelon, lemon - 22 - 25 kcal.
- Red cabbage, white cabbage, cauliflower, turnip, zucchini, cranberries, strawberries, cherry plums - 26 - 30 kcal.
- Celery (root), green beans, wild garlic, radish, carrots, grapefruit, melon - 31 - 34 kcal.
- Orange, blueberry, quince - 38 kcal.
- Onion, apple, peach, gooseberry, currant, raspberry, blueberry, parsley, dill - 40 - 46 kcal.
Out of competition are water and green tea: at zero calories, they make the body work, spending calories to heat them if their temperature is below body temperature. However, you should not flatter yourself: in order to spend 1 kcal, you need to heat up a whole liter of water by 1 degree, and in order to lose a kilogram, you need to burn thousands of extra kilocalories. No one can drink that much water.
Can you lose weight on negative calorie foods?
Of course, you can lose weight by eating only negative calorie foods. But you can’t lose weight in this way: the rejection of proteins and fats is tantamount to suicide. For normal life, the body needs not only vitamins and minerals, which vegetables are rich in. And they, by the way, will not be digested without fats.
The optimal combination is when low-calorie vegetables and fruits from the list above take up about 2/3 of the daily diet.
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Some people continue to think that "negative" calories do not exist. On the one hand, they are right, because a calorie is a particle of energy value that enters the body with food. There is a certain amount of calories in every product that hits the table, but in order to eat and lose weight at the same time, you need to know one trick.
Water has the lowest calorie content, so you can drink it in unlimited quantities, but flour products and sweets are simply full of calories that are not always needed. And where is the trick, you may ask. The answer will be next. Some foods carry so few calories into the body that cells spend more energy processing them. This is where the negative balance comes in. It sounds like something from the realm of fantasy, but these products can really be eaten in any quantities and not get better.
Of course, it is impossible to replace the entire usual diet with such products, but some of the high-calorie foods are very useful. And let these "light" products be 10, 15 or 30% of all that enter the body during lunch, breakfast or dinner, there will still be an effect. And it's immediate.
The whole secret of mind-blowing action lies in their composition. For the most part, they all consist of coarse fibrous structures, the digestion of which the body expends a large amount of energy (that is, calories). 
Vegetables
Vegetables are leaders in the minimum calorie content. Maximum fiber and minimum calories can be found in vegetables and fruits.
List of negative calorie vegetables. So, you can safely include in your diet:
But this should be done only in the season when all vegetables are grown locally, and not brought from distant countries. Then they will have the maximum amount of usefulness and there will be no nitrates and pesticides at all. You need to become a vegetarian at the end of summer and autumn, and in winter you should stick to the standard set of products for the cold time.
Fresh vegetables, if you just eat them in the morning, at lunchtime and in the evening, can quickly stop liking, so you need to combine them with each other, achieving unusual salad compositions. To enhance the taste sensations, nutritionists recommend using olive oil, but in no case mayonnaise or fatty sour cream: after such a “mockery”, all negative calorie content will simply evaporate, leaving extra centimeters at the waist. Another ideal ingredient for salad dressings is lemon juice.
You can cook all kinds of stews from vegetables, trying to abandon such a method as frying. Heat treatment at elevated temperatures has a very bad effect on vitamins, destroying them and reducing all usefulness to zero.
The most rational housewives have found a way out of how to cook low-calorie vegetable dishes in winter. They freeze the necessary vegetables during the season and get full-fledged "vitamin" cocktails in the winter. You can buy frozen vegetables in supermarkets, but there their freshness may be poor. It is best to harvest zucchini, sweet peppers and tomatoes. All of them are very well reflected in the figure, the condition of the skin and hair in the winter and spring, when there are very few other vitamins in the products.
| Name | Calorie content, kcal per 100 gr |
|---|---|
| Artichoke | 28 |
| eggplant | 24 |
| Broccoli | 28 |
| Swede | 37 |
| Zucchini | 27 |
| White cabbage | 28 |
| red cabbage | 31 |
| lettuce salad | 17 |
| Green onion | 22 |
| Onion | 40 |
| Carrot | 33 |
| cucumbers | 15 |
| Pattison | 19 |
| Sweet pepper | 25 |
| Chilli | 40 |
| Rhubarb | 16 |
| Radish | 20 |
| radish | 34 |
| Turnip | 28 |
| Salad | 14 |
| Beet | 48 |
| 10 | |
| Asparagus | 20 |
| tomatoes | 15 |
| Turnip | 28 |
| Pumpkin | 28 |
| green beans | 32 |
| Cauliflower | 29 |
| Chicory | 21 |
| zucchini | 16 |
| Cheremsha () | 34 |
| Spinach | 21 |
| Sorrel | 25 |
| Endive | 17 |
Fruit
Assorted fruits are the best "girlfriends" for the figure. Fruits, like vegetables, contain a large amount of fiber, but they have one significant drawback that must be taken into account.
Fruits are very strong allergens, therefore, the more exotic the fruit, the more carefully you need to eat it, and it is better to remove it from the list of consumed. Also, do not forget about the large amount of sugar for those who suffer from diabetes. These products are not suitable for them.
For weight loss, it is best to eat local fruits such as apples, cherries, cherries and pears. Of the berries, it is advisable to treat yourself to raspberries and blueberries. But pineapples and citrus fruits in the summer are best used to make refreshing drinks.
To get a negative calorie, all fruits must be eaten whole, only fresh they have the necessary fiber, which was mentioned earlier. They are no longer in juices, so the calorie content of “liquid” fruits is much higher.
| Name | Calorie content, kcal per 100 gr |
|---|---|
| Apricot | 48 |
| Quince | 38 |
| cherry plum | 30 |
| A pineapple | 48 |
| Orange | 38 |
| Grapefruit | 35 |
| Melon | 32 |
| carambola | 31 |
| 48 | |
| Lime | 16 |
| Lemon | 24 |
| Mandarin | 38 |
| Papaya | 48 |
| Peach | 44 |
| pomelo | 32 |
| Plum | 43 |
| Apple | 46 |
| Name | Calorie content, kcal per 100 gr |
|---|---|
| Watermelon | 25 |
| Barberry | 29 |
| Cowberry | 40 |
| Blueberry | 37 |
| Blackberry | 33 |
| Honeysuckle | 30 |
| strawberries | 41 |
| viburnum | 26 |
| Dogwood | 44 |
| Strawberry | 30 |
| Cranberry | 28 |
| Gooseberry | 44 |
| Lemongrass | 11 |
| Raspberry | 41 |
| Cloudberry | 31 |
| Sea buckthorn | 30 |
| Rowan | 44 |
| Currant | 40 |
| Blueberry | 40 |
Spices
The usefulness of spices for the figure. In order for the figure to always remain “on top”, you need to regularly use ginger and cinnamon. And you don’t need to think that you can eat a cinnamon pie and lose weight. It is best to add this spice to drinks and vegetable dishes (but this is already very strong for an amateur).
In this regard, it's easier. It goes well with vegetable and meat dishes, as well as with sour-milk drinks. Especially tasty and healthy is the root marinated in vinegar, which is easy to make on your own. The main thing is to cut it as thin as possible, and add a few drops of beet juice to the rice vinegar. Then its color will be close to the original.
Generalized table of negative calorie foods
| Name | Calorie content, kcal per 100 gr |
|---|---|
| Green tea | 0 |
| Bamboo | 10 |
| Celery | 10 |
| Lemongrass | 11 |
| Salad | 14 |
| cucumbers | 15 |
| tomatoes | 15 |
| Lime | 16 |
| Rhubarb | 16 |
| zucchini | 16 |
| lettuce salad | 17 |
| Endive | 17 |
| Pattison | 19 |
| Radish | 20 |
| Asparagus | 20 |
| Chicory | 21 |
| Spinach | 21 |
| Green onion | 22 |
| eggplant | 24 |
| Lemon | 24 |
| Watermelon | 25 |
| Oregano | 25 |
| Coriander | 25 |
| Sweet pepper | 25 |
| Sorrel | 25 |
| Tarragon | 25 |
| viburnum | 26 |
| Basil | 27 |
| Zucchini | 27 |
| Artichoke | 28 |
| Broccoli | 28 |
| White cabbage | 28 |
| Cranberry | 28 |
| Turnip | 28 |
| Turnip | 28 |
| Pumpkin | 28 |
| Barberry | 29 |
| Cauliflower | 29 |
| cherry plum | 30 |
| Honeysuckle | 30 |
| Strawberry | 30 |
| Sea buckthorn | 30 |
| red cabbage | 31 |
| carambola | 31 |
| Cloudberry | 31 |
| Melon | 32 |
| pomelo | 32 |
| green beans | 32 |
| Blackberry | 33 |
| Carrot | 33 |
| radish | 34 |
| Ramson (garlic) | 34 |
| Grapefruit | 35 |
| Swede | 37 |
| Blueberry | 37 |
| Quince | 38 |
| Orange | 38 |
| Mandarin | 38 |
| Cowberry | 40 |
| Onion | 40 |
| Chilli | 40 |
| Currant | 40 |
| Dill | 40 |
| Blueberry | 40 |
| strawberries | 41 |
| Raspberry | 41 |
| Plum | 43 |
| Dogwood | 44 |
| Gooseberry | 44 |
| Peach | 44 |
| Rowan | 44 |
| Dandelion | 45 |
| Parsley | 45 |
| Apple | 46 |
| Apricot | 48 |
| A pineapple | 48 |
| Kiwi | 48 |
| Papaya | 48 |
| Beet | 48 |
| Mint | 49 |
What are negative calorie foods? It turns out that the same magical food that you eat and lose weight. That is, food that is not deposited on the sides, thighs and stomach, because the body spends much more energy on its digestion and assimilation than it receives. This seems to be our dream menu - chicken breast with celery for lunch, cauliflower for dinner, and strawberries for dessert! And not a single extra gram at the waist - everything burned down without a trace.
Is it really? In this article, we will talk about what a negative calorie food actually is, what foods have it, and most importantly, are all the statements true?
Magic or Deception: How Reverse Energy Foods Really Work
To begin with, we will try to understand the very process of assimilation of such food. What does she give us and why is she so popular among those who lose weight?
Most often, when talking about minus calories, they mean vegetables or cold water. The body spends the energy received to digest food - hence the effect.
Plant foods are rich in fiber. And it's very hard to grasp. It turns out that if there are zucchini, celery, cauliflower, our digestion will idle. And this means that the cost of assimilation will be greater - the right way to lose weight.
What happens when reverse calorie foods enter the body? That's right, he begins to intensively expend energy. Where does the "fuel" for active work come from? From body fat. So you can eat and lose weight.
But is it really so?
The energy consumption of our body is called the thermogenic effect of food - TEF for short. Not all calories received during breakfast, lunch or dinner go to support life. Part makes the process of digestion and assimilation of food possible.
Different products have different TEF. For example, in meat, eggs and other sources of animal protein, this indicator is one of the highest (up to 30%). That is, in order to break down the protein into amino acids, the body must try hard - work in an enhanced mode and release more energy.
This feature is used with might and main by the creators of popular express diets and other methods based on restrictions. They offer us a ready-made solution - a surplus of protein in the diet. However, if there is a lot of one thing, the other may not be enough. So it is in this case. Our body suffers, which is forced to put up with a lack of valuable nutrients - vitamins, trace elements, carbohydrates, fats.
By the way, what about carbohydrates? Their TEF is between 5 and 10%. But do not forget - there are simple, but there are complex organic substances, and there is a big difference between them. So, to digest and assimilate sweet soda, a lot of effort is not needed, but grains or vegetables rich in fiber are a completely different matter.
To make a list of foods with 0 calories, you need to find food with a thermogenic effect of more than 100%. Here the most interesting begins. It turns out that such food simply does not exist. But there are vegetables and fruits that have a low energy density - they are distinguished by a large volume with a low energy value. Those who want to lose weight should stop their attention on them.
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Myths about easy food that is difficult to digest
So that you are finally convinced that anti-calorie products are not what they are given out for, we invite you to guess: myth or reality is what we will talk about.
- To digest food with a negative energy value, much more “feeding” is required than the body receives from food.
True or myth? To answer this question, let's imagine that spinach is the same universal product that helps to lose weight, just being present in the diet - no matter what. If its calorie content (23 kcal) is considered the "raw material" that we receive, then the cost of assimilation should be many times higher. And we can eat a cake with fat cream immediately after the salad - because all the calories are guaranteed to burn.
I think you have already guessed that this is a lie - no product, even the most useful and low energy value, can require more calories from the body than it contains.
The bottom line is that negative calories are just a fantasy. But there is food that can be called close to the "zero" indicator - if we compare the income we receive and energy costs, we can see that the balance is approaching zero.
- You can even eat what is harmful, under one condition - to seize sweets, pickles, fast food and semi-finished products containing fats in large quantities, you need plant foods (greens, vegetables). This will help us lose weight.
True or myth? You can’t do this, and any sane person who cares about the figure and adheres to a healthy balanced diet knows this. If we systematically overeat unprofitable products, eating miracle vegetables and herbs a couple of times a day, there will be no effect - the weight will still grow.
You can eat zucchini, cauliflower and celery salad without worrying about your figure. But if you add cakes, smoked meats, fried and fatty foods to them, your body will store extra calories in the form of new kilograms simply because it cannot process all the nutrients to the end.
What can you advise to those who want to lose weight? The ideal combination is dietary meat or lean fish plus vegetables. This is a great option for both lunch and a later meal. You get a maximum of vitamins and minerals, as well as an important building block for muscle tissue - protein.
- Reverse calorie foods are also good fat burners.
True or myth? There is food with low energy value - for example, celery, radish, which increase the metabolic rate - accelerate metabolic processes and help the stomach and intestines cope with the digestion of food, absorb all the nutrients without a trace. However, it does not have a fat burning effect. Calories begin to burn when the muscles work. So the ideal option for you is a combination of proper nutrition with an active lifestyle.
- Negative calorie foods will help you slim down.
True or myth? It is difficult to disagree with this, because for the most part these are vegetables with a low energy value. You can eat as much salad of fresh peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes as you like without fear of gaining excess weight. Don't forget about proper dressing - no fat mayonnaise, just vegetable oil or light dressings.
Healthy eating is the first and most important step to a slim figure. The diet must be balanced. This means that you can not eat only vegetables. We need food containing animal protein, polyunsaturated fats. Do not forbid yourself what is beneficial for the body - allow it. The main thing is not to forget to control the situation. To do this, you can start a special diary, where you will note the energy value of each meal eaten per day.
Negative Calorie Products for Weight Loss: List and Table
So, we are convinced: food that requires more energy from us than it gives, simply does not exist. There is only food as close as possible to this definition, which we will talk about later.
For the most part, these are vegetables, fruits and berries, rich in fiber and having a relatively large volume with a low calorie content. In almost all lists of such products, cabbage is the leader. Her TEF is around 15%. Another assistant in getting rid of extra pounds is Iceberg lettuce with green juicy and crispy leaves. There are only 3 carbohydrates in 100 g.
What happens? Vegetables don't give us much energy - you still can't do without protein food. But they fill the stomach well (fiber plays a role here), give a feeling of fullness for a long time, so when losing weight, these products are indispensable.
What else should you know about plant foods?
Raw fruits and vegetables are of great value to us.
During heat treatment, the fibers are destroyed, vitamins and nutrients are lost.
Have you seen how the volume of vegetables changes after stewing or baking? During cooking, liquid and soluble substances leave them.
Is it really necessary to eat plant foods exclusively raw? Let it be 50 to 50 - part of the vegetables in the salad, part in the stew or casserole.
Below is a table that presents the participants in the list of products with a minus or negative calorie content.
We will tell you more about the most famous vegetables and berries that will help you lose weight.
Celery root - this root vegetable not only strengthens bone tissue, improves immunity and has an anti-inflammatory effect, but also improves digestion. Caloric content of only 100 g of celery - 25 kcal. 94% is liquid - that is, we no longer eat, but drink. The use of the root before meals helps to speed up the metabolic processes in the body, and the coarse fibers contained in it perfectly cleanse the intestinal walls of toxins and toxins. Another proof of the benefits of this product is the low GI.
Cauliflower - it can be found on the table of those who are trying to lose weight. And for good reason: it has a minimum of calories and a maximum of useful substances. There is not much fiber in it, but this is for the best: the inflorescences irritate the gastric mucosa less. Cauliflower helps our digestion, accelerates slow metabolism. It can be boiled, baked, added to a variety of salads, included in vegetable stews.
Artichoke - removes excess fluid from the body, activates metabolism, contributes to the normal absorption of food. This plant has recently appeared on our tables, and many do not know how to eat and cook it. And this is not so difficult: the artichoke is boiled, after which the central coarse leaves are removed, leaving the edible part in the very middle - similar in shape to a potato.
Kalina - the low calorie content of this berry is a reason to include it in your diet. Light pies are baked with it, jelly is cooked from it and natural and tasty marmalade is made. For lovers of sweets who want to lose weight without denying themselves goodies, this is an ideal option.
Rhubarb is another rare guest on our table. This plant cleanses the intestines, improves metabolism, helps to normalize digestive processes and strengthens the immune system. The edible part is the stem. Appetizing desserts are made from it, it is also added to salads, used as a side dish for meat and fish.
Strawberries are an indispensable source of vitamins, a low-calorie base for homemade ice cream, mousses, compotes, jams. This berry contains substances that remove excess fluid from the body, as well as fiber, which normalizes the functioning of the intestines and creates all the conditions for the proper digestion of food.
There are no foods without calories on our list - there are only those without which it is impossible to imagine proper nutrition. Do not forget that the diet must be balanced - then every dish on your table will contribute to weight loss.
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What does negative calorie mean?
Our whole life is an expenditure of energy, and even when we sleep, the body loses calories. Reception and assimilation of food is a rather costly process. Food needs to be chewed, enzymes produced, digested and assimilated, that is, split into substances that give us life.
The most labor-intensive product for the body -. It takes the most time to digest it, and therefore energy. But this is not always a low-calorie product, so the balance will be positive. But digesting a cucumber, the body will remain in the red - one hundred grams of cucumbers contains 14 calories. It will take two or even three times more energy to digest a green vegetable, this is the principle of negative calorie foods.
However, it should be noted that negative calorie foods are not fat burners. It's just that the body has to work hard to absorb them. Their list is extensive, it includes vegetables, fruits, herbs, some spices. The table also contains meat as a product that requires a large consumption of calories for the process of its absorption and assimilation.
List of negative calorie foods
Nutritionists classify these foods into groups based on the energy needed for digestion and assimilation. Topping the list are green vegetables and herbs – broccoli, all kinds of leafy lettuce, leeks, asparagus, etc. The second are just vegetables - carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, turnips and others. In third place are berries and fruits. On the fourth - animal protein, that is, meat, fish, seafood. True, their calorie content is higher, but nutritionists conditionally place them in the fourth group in terms of energy costs. Separately, mushrooms are isolated - an extremely useful product in terms of composition with a high energy consumption for its digestion.
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The presented table breaks down low-calorie foods into groups according to this principle:
| 1 place | 2nd place | 3rd place | 4th place |
|---|---|---|---|
| cucumbers | cauliflower | citrus | white poultry meat |
| broccoli | garlic | watermelon | lean beef |
| onion | carrot | melon | organ meats |
| spinach | beet | mango | lean fish |
| celery | eggplant | a pineapple | seafood |
| lettuce | Bell pepper | peaches | |
| leafy salads | hot peppers | apricots | |
| parsley | rhubarb | hard pears | |
| basil | tomatoes | apples | |
| dill | turnip | figs | |
| mint | pumpkin | papaya | |
| tarragon | zucchini | plum | |
| thyme | radish | cranberry | |
| sage | green beans) | blueberry | |
| artichoke | blueberry | ||
| turnip | cowberry | ||
| currant | |||
| raspberry | |||
| Strawberry | |||
| blackberry |
The table gives you the opportunity to create a menu in such a way that you can eat fully without feeling hungry during the diet and at the same time losing extra pounds.
What you need to know about diet
There are two mistakes that people who lose weight most often make. The first is the transition to a diet consisting entirely of low-calorie foods. Such diets should not be long, moreover, the use of products included in this list is not shown to everyone.
Negative calorie content is good, but the menu must contain animal protein - all body cells are built from it. There is no need to be afraid to eat meat, despite its calorie content, digestion takes a lot of time, which means that a lot of energy will be spent on it. And if you combine it with green vegetables, then energy costs will be even higher. You just need to avoid fatty varieties by eating turkey, rabbit, chicken or lean boiled beef.
The second misconception is eating high-calorie foods with negative calorie foods. If you think that eating ice cream or a good portion of fried potatoes, and then a couple of vegetables included in the list, extra calories will be burned, then this is a deep delusion. "Yummy" will quickly nullify the body's efforts to digest the same salad or cucumber.
