Negative Calorie Foods: 55 Negative Calorie Foods Chart & List

Can it be really possible to lose weight by eating more at the same time? The answer of this question is “Yes”, with negative calorie foods. You need not to stay hungry to lose weight. Just eat the negative calorie foods instead of high calorie foods. These foods are the best bet to kill your hunger.

What Are Negative Calorie Foods?

Negative calorie foods are those foods which need more food energy to digest than the actual food energy they provide. It is clear that it will take extra calories to digest than the actual calories they provide by eating it. But these foods also provide fiber, carbohydrates, Vitamins & other healthy compound to the body. Simple body functions like chewing or digesting any food burns calories.

For an example, You burn more calories by just chewing and digesting celery or grapefruit (negative calorie foods) than calories actually these foods provide.

What is Negative Calorie Effect?

Consuming Negative calorie foods will burn more calories in chewing and digestion process  as compared to the calories they provide for the body. Eating these foods will create a calorie-deficit in the body, ultimately helps in weight loss. This theory is called the negative calorie effect.

For the digestion process, the body has to call additional biochemical resources in order to digest the high-fiber & high protein foods. When we eat these foods,  slightly cooked (with nothing on them) or in raw form our body burns more calories. That is why their thermic effect is greater than its food energy to the body. In other words,  you can say that they raise the metabolism (BMR) and that’s why we burn even more calories while having a rest.

How do Negative Calorie Foods Work?

Our body burns calories during the digestion process for all the foods we eat. Our body uses around 10-15% of calories of the food we eat, in order to digest them. Our body also needs energy to break down the food  compound and absorb carbohydrates, proteins, minerals fats, and other nutrients. Our body generates energy from the food we intake.

List of Negative Calorie Foods

List of Negative Calorie Fruits	List of Negative Calorie Vegetables	List of Negative Calorie Herbs/Spices
[starlist] Apples Apricots Blackberries Cantaloupes Cranberries Grapefruit Guava Lemons Oranges Papayas Peaches Pineapples Plums Prunes Raspberries Strawberries Tangerines Tomatoes Watermelon [/starlist]	[starlist] Asparagus Aubergine Beets Broccoli Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery Chicory Cress Cucumbers Dandelion Endive Fennel Green beans Lettuce Onions Radishes Spinach Turnip Zucchini   [/starlist]	[starlist] Anise Cayenne Chili peppers Cinnamon Cloves Coriander/Cilantro Cumin Dill Fennel seeds Flax seeds Garden cress Garlic Ginger Parsley Mustard seeds Watercress [/starlist]

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How to Include Negative Calorie Foods in Everyday Diet?

Replace at-least any of your meals with Negative Calorie Food on a daily basis. You can eat them as slightly cooked or in raw form. It is always a wise decision to have them over high calorie foods like Pastry, Pizza and Potato Chips. You also don’t get a license to eat high calorie junk food after having Negative calorie foods.

How to Get Maximum Benefits From Negative Calorie Foods?

Negative calorie food is not a substitute to daily workout or exercising. To get the maximum health benefits including negative calorie foods in your everyday diet along with regular exercise.