Negative what?

Negative calorie foods?!

This mind-blowing thought could help you create a salad that really DOES do your body good.

Instead of making healthy eating harder, 

a little "negative calories" (aka raw fruits and veggies) help you eat smarter, and give you the vitamins and minerals and antioxidants you need from whole food nutrition.

WIKIPEDIA SAYS; A negative calorie food is a food that is purported to require more food energy to be digested than it provides. That is, its thermic effect is greater than its food energy content.

While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence that any of the foods claimed as negative calorie foods are such.^[1][2] Foods that are claimed to be negative in calories are mostly low-calorie fruits and vegetables such as grapefruit, lemon, lime, apple, lettuce, celery, broccoli and cabbage.^[3] Celery, a commonly cited negative calorie food, actually requires only about 10% of its food energy content to be digested (due to the thermic effect).^[4]:88 Zero-calorie beverages, such as water, do take more than zero calories to process within the body, however they do not offer the dietary sustenance that other so-called negative calorie foods do in the form of fiber, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc. and as such, are not generally regarded as being negative calorie."

As a busy gal it's good to know what I can grab on the go and nosh on while not adding extra work for my body later on (saturated fats are like a hamster-wheel of wasted energy...so much so, you made need a nap after eating them). But not fruits and veggies, no sir-ee! Check out these yummies....

Here's a list. Hope it helps! 

Fruits 
apple 
cranberries 
grapefruit 
lemon 
mango 
orange 
pineapple 
raspberries 
strawberries 
tangerine 

Vegetables 
asparagus 
beet 
broccoli 
cabbage (green) 
carrot 
cauliflower 
celery 
Chile peppers (hot) 
cucumber 
dandelion 
endive 
garden cress 
garlic 
green beans 
lettuce 
onion 
papaya 
radishes 
spinach 
turnip 

  

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17 Fruits, Vegetables, & Grains

Juice Plus+^® contains a wide variety of nutritionally dense fruits and vegetables reduced to juice powder concentrate using a proprietary process. Fruits and vegetables contain many phytonutrients, from such familiar vitamins as vitamin C and beta-carotene, to less widely known antioxidant compounds, including polyphenols and flavonoids. It also includes the carotenoids, beta-cryptoxanthin, and lycopene. Below are a few examples of the broad range of phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables, but remember that there are many more than those listed here:

• Apple: Pectin along with a variety of polyphenols and other antioxidants
• Acerola Cherry: Vitamin C and anthocyanadins
• Cranberry: Flavonoid and phenolic antioxidants
• Orange: Vitamin C, folate, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin
• Papaya: Vitamin C, potassium, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin
• Peach: Vitamin C and several carotenoids
• Pineapple: Vitamin C and bromelain
• Tomato: Vitamin C, polyphenols, and several carotenoids including lycopene
• Oat Bran: Dietary fiber, vitamin E, several B vitamins, and minerals
• Beet: Folate, iron and calcium
• Broccoli: Folate, vitamin C, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, and glucosinolates
• Cabbage: Vitamin C, folate, and glucosinolates
• Carrot: Several carotenoids including beta-carotene, along with vitamin E
• Kale: Vitamin C, folate, magnesium, and several carotenoids including beta carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin
• Parsley: Vitamin C, folate, several carotenoids and flavonols
• Spinach: Folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, several carotenoids, iron, and calcium
• Brown Rice Bran: Dietary fiber, several B vitamins, and minerals

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