0 Calorie Foods

What is your favorite 0 calorie food? Mine is cucumber! Love it and I can eat as much as I want!

Jennifer

I didn't they existed...except for diet fizzy drinks and water. I eat cucumbers nearly every day. They are a staple here in Sweden...you have to have them on a sandwich, or its just not right:) But they do have calories in them the last time I checked...is there a new "breed" of cucumber? :P

This website is the only place that I have ever seen calories counted for cucumbers. Everywhere else it has a 0 amount.

I read in my cookbook at home that 6 thin slices of cucumbers = 25 calories.  I eat alot of cucumbers too but now that I know that I have to cut back.

http://www.tableoil.com/NegativeCalorie.pdf#s earch='negative%20calorie%20foods'

Check this out.

Do you ever eat english cucumbers? They're my favorite. They say they're seedless but there's seeds, just not as many and not as watery! And they come packaged so they're not waxy. I love 'em with a bit of low cal balsalmic vinagrette. I just bought one at lunch time they're so good!

Cucumbers on a sandwich? I always thought that was weird when subway started that, is it good?

mmm.. i love love love cucumbers on a sandwich.. :)  gives them some moisture and a fresh crunch!  mmm

ough.. yuk, cucumbers.  You can HAVE em.  I'll eat dill pickles all day long, though, if you let me :)

Obsidyan you always have the right answer!

OOOOOOH PICKLES!! I'm from NJ (in CO now) and they had this little hungarian neighborhood by my grandparent's house (we're hungarian) and they make the best pickles at this butcher. YUM!! Don't you hate it when you move and can't get those foods you love... like Ellio's pizza?

Last year we were in my hometown, Osoyoos - (Okanagan) and it was very very hot - 40 degrees celcius about 104 or so Ferenheit.  We couldn't keep lettuce very well camping but had cucumbers - made a salad out of them making the cucumber like the lettuce!! Oh My Goodness - so good, so refreshing so hydrating!! Loved it.  My kids love it on their sandwiches too!! 

I'm confused. Are there really foods that are 0 cals?

well cucumbers are great i love them on sandwiches also..however...they do have calories...nothing bad but they are there...like cyndya said only thing w/o cals are diet sodas

A great big, 8" cucumber is only 34 calories, according to the CC food search.  I don't count any calories if I'm having a few slices on my salad.

Don't know where you all are getting the information that they are high in calories.  Maybe you're talking about marinated or pickled cucumbers?

Claire

pamelakapler, I just found those English cucumbers about a month ago, and I LOVE them!  I use to eat those little Arabic ones, for the same reasons you mentioned: small seeds, great skin you can eat, and not watery, but they are way expensive, those English ones are cheaper and are great.  I even cut them for my kids lunches, and they eat them right along with the carrot sticks.

does the negative calorie thing really works??

Mcdull, the theory behind the negative calorie explosion is that it takes more calories to consume/digest said food than the actual calorie of the food. I know that foods like cucumber has very little calories, but I choose to add it to my food log because of the other nutrients/vitamins it has.

Just what other nutrients/vitamins does a cuke have?

Potassium which helps to maintain healthful skin, also said to help lower high blood pressure, with trace amounts of Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Potassium, Folate

Celery is yummy, and you burn more calories eating it than you consume. It might as well be a zero calorie food. Other than that, you could eat mustard!

we went through a clementine phase at the office after we found out they were a negative cal food.

I'm still upset about the whole cucumber has calories thing. lol It's what I ate when I was at my calorie limit, I thought I found a great way to get a snack without ruining my counts! BOO HOO! Thanks for the info guys!

Jennifer