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These 20 nutritionist-approved foods have ZERO calories

And they don’t taste like cardboard

We’ve all heard the rumours about celery: eat it and you’ll burn more calories than you ingest.

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But what if we told you that celery is just one of up to 20 foods that have the same effect?

According to a list published in The Sun, raspberries, kale, apples and lettuce are among the fruits and vegetables that could be said to contain zero calories. That’s right: zero, nada, zilch.

The idea is that due to these foods’ high water content, they contain less energy than it takes to consume them * adds chewing and digesting to daily exercise tally *

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Dr Donald Hensrud from the Mayo Clinic breaks it down: “Foods that contain few calories, such as celery and other non-starchy vegetables, provide a small number of calories but still require energy to digest,” he says. “That means it is theoretically possible to have a negative-calorie food.”

He does add, however, that here are no reputable scientific studies to prove the theory actually works. “[But] even if non-starchy vegetables are not negative-calorie, they are still low-calorie, and a smart choice to include in a predominantly plant-based diet,” he says.

Of course, no-one’s advocating you eat only the foods on this list – that would be plain crazy. But if you were looking for an added incentive to eat more fruit and veggies, this is it.

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The 20 ‘zero calorie’ foods

1. Apples

2. Apricots

3. Beetroot

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4. Broccoli

5. Cauliflower

6. Celery

7. Watercress

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8. Cucumber

9. Garlic

10. Grapefruit

11. Green beans

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12. Kale

13. Leeks

14.Lemons

15. Lettuce

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16. Onions

17. Raspberries

18. Strawberries

19. Swede

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20. Watermelon

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