Negative Calorie Foods – Fact or Fiction?

I always sidestepped the 'celery has negative calories' theory by adding peanut butter. Not only was it good, but I also didn't have this unrealistic view that celery burned more calories than what was consumed. Adding peanut butter to celery never gave me the impression that I was burning more calories digesting this snack than I was consuming.

How anyone could eat plain celery anyway is beyond me.......BLEAH!

Some people will eat ANYTHING if they think it is going to help them lose weight or is a miracle worker for their figure. I have seen people eating celery while bragging that they were burning more calories than gaining. A lot of americans today are diet driven, so I am not surprised that they would eat plain celery.

I know celery is a very good vegetable for dropping blood pressure.

There is a good quality of celery in our district. Ours is more better look green color than that picture.

I bought 2.5kg yesterday on the market. cost 5 yuan RMB.

How is your price on your market?

Hi, Moose,

I dont understand your words, dont laugh at .

I dont brag, the celery produced in our district is really famous. very good quality.

Chinese medcine thinks its a good medicine else.

Ladys and girls who love beauty like it very much. it also suit to high presure patients. I remember Milo has said he has high blood pressure, so he should have it except play Taiji quan.

Besides, there are lotus seed, date and cucumber etc are all boved by ladys for their slim body.

cucumber blends with garlic and vinegar, its delicious on the table in the summer.

the modern girl and lady cut it into piece and place on their face is a forever fasion in cities.

ah, waste food, in my opinion. haha.

Hello cnpower,

My last message was designed to be ironic, but it only makes sense if you're familiar with the original expression in English. So, here it is.

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence".

Simply put, that saying means that people are never satisfied with their own situation and think that others have it better.

Since you sometimes say that China is better, I'm teasing you here (but in a spirit of fun, not hostility) since both celery and grass are green.

Thanks for sharing the information about the celery in your district. I don't much care for celery's flavor, either, so I'm glad that there are better uses for it than eating!

Best Regards,

Moose

I can imagine it. thats why I said, its not my brag...

its a often things in forum. everyone wish to be smarter or stronger than others. doesnt matter. I dont care of it.

In fact every one is proud of his country. Especially our China that has a continual words recording for more than 3000 years. this is unique in the world.

One has to mention chinese food once he metion to China. Chinese restaurents spread over the world. None can withstand its temptation.

I know some people dont love some special flavor like coriander, Jinjie (I dont know how tospeak in Eng) and celery. But they are really good and for health.

I was in the market yesterday and they paid me to take celery home.

From what I can find, average urban celery salary in China is 25000 yuan. That's about 68 yuan day → → 34Kg celery/day (maybe a lot less in rural areas, but celery will be cheaper). UK 'minimum 'wage works out at about £46/day (not a very true figure because of complex tax/benefit system). At a supermarket (I just looked at ASDA - cheap place, sells all sorts of stuff, that would buy about 46Kg celery. Our salary celery is near enough the same (for a very rough comparison), but I think yours will be fresher/tastier. It's almost impossible to make a price comparison on single items (different economic systems etc).

Does China have problems with overweight people ? If it does, do you think it is linked to lifestyle becoming more like Western culture ?

The word I think you were trying to find earlier was ginseng (?). It is sold in a lot of shops, usually as a way of maintaining health. It's often found in tea. I don't know how true that is, we have many such things these-days. Just to clarify the word ;

Here is a celery drink I found;

- juice of large slice of lemon OR juice of 1/4 lime
- pinch of Celtic sea salt
- fresh ginger to taste (1/2 "x 1/2" chunk is good)
- med clove garlic
- 3-6 large stalks celery
- 1/4 - 1/2 of a sweet, flavorful variety of apple, such as Honeycrisp, Empire or Braeburn, cut to fit in juicer
- pinch of stevia extract to taste, if desired

hmmmm.....don't think I'll rush to try it.

Ha - I hadn't heard this one yet ;

"In the European Union, foods that contain or may contain celery, even in trace amounts, have to be clearly marked as such." - it can cause serious allergy reaction.

Here is more to worry us;

" Medicinal uses of celery are numerous. But first I must point out three cautions. Number one is that some people develop dermatitis when handling celery, and you could be one of these, so be careful. Number two is be aware that some of the wild celeries that I listed are related closely to, and could be mistaken for, deadly poisonous species. So stick with garden celery and do not experiment with gathering wild plants. Number three is that I have read that if one stores celery too long, say three weeks, it can build up toxic levels of furocoumarins. So eat it soon after you harvest or buy it."

There's more;

"Celery has the number four (4) highest pesticide load of 45 common fruits and vegetables studied in 2006 by the Environmental Working Group and is therefore a prime candidate for switching to organic. The EWA explains, "While washing and rinsing fresh produce may reduce levels of some pesticides, it does not eliminate them. Peeling also reduces exposures, but valuable nutrients often go down the drain with the peel. The best option is to eat a varied diet, wash all produce, and choose organic when possible to reduce exposure to potentially harmful chemicals."
According to USDA and FDA tests on commercially grown foods collected between 2000 and 2005, celery has a 94.1% (percentage) of samples tested with detectable pesticides, a 79.8% (percentage) of samples with two or more pesticides, a 3.0 average number of pesticides found in a sample, an average of 0.413 parts per million of all pesticides found, and 30 different pesticides found in use growing celery. These toxic pesticides don't apply to organic foods."

It gets stranger;

"Something unusual is going on at the Amish neighbors. Last year, like every other year in the past, they planted 100 stalks of celery. This year they planted 400 stalks! They didn't plant all that celery because they developed a sudden craving for celery. That extra celery is a big clue that there's going to be a wedding there this fall. Celery is such an important ingredient at an Amish wedding that your neighbors needed to plant hundreds of extra stalks just to make sure they had enough. "

This is interesting as well ;

"Chinese chefs prepare a dish of celery during a campaign to get more people to eat celery in Xian, northern China's Shaanxi province 31 October 2006. The province is facing an unusual abundance of celery crop, causing the price of the vegetable to drop below cost."

Celery sounds dangerous - I'm going !

all this research isn't to help some student with their Thesis is it? GA.

wow, Thats English man who often walk around Heide （？）park.

if you speak one word, they would rreturn you hundred. your long article will take me a whole day to read. Im afraid.

What I metioned is another vegetabe, not ginseng, in our country, ginseng is a valuable medicine. very expensive. if grow in wild in forest, it wil cost about 1000 rmb per gram. some times 1500-2500yuan/g. few person can afford it as vegetable on the table.

but if plant by peasants, that will be another thing, cheaper enough.

I know that event you mentioned. Its pity, poor peasants. all is lack of information. peasants need organize to promote produce. We can do nothing about it but sympathize.

This made me understanding why USA peasants poured milk into river in last 30's. In the past, all of us cannt understand this action. I thought that americans must be a goup of foolishmen and wild. why not send to the poor?

I wish thatwill not take place forever.

pesdicide and pollution is main problem in the world. not in China, but USA and all developped countries. So you neednt laugh at our chinese. your country still face with such problem.

thats why we have it long time wash or cut out outside part, then to eat.

"Jinjie" it this ?

= 'Ginger' in English.

Sometimes people with reddish colour hair are referred to as 'Ginger' - different story.

Ginger is popular over here. I'd better save that info for another thread ! I hear that a lot of Chinese workers in the city have returned to family homes in the rural areas (due to global economy problems). Not many UK people would know hoe tot do farm work, and we couldn't all do it - not enough farm area/no family in such places. Maybe physical work is the only form of 'negative calories' !

That vegetable I metioned is not ginger. Ginger is a root plant, It and garlic, shallot were popular in the kitchen. Our neighboor province are famous with giner, another is with shallot. Garlic and ginger are main export product. there are many garlic and ginger byproducts in your super market, may be made in China.

Ginger is also a good chinese medicine. if you catch cold, drink some ginger soup, will get well soon. Chinese food cannt have no ginger and garlic. I neednt to talk about garlic too much.Everyone will knowits good. Of cuase only one short is ...

We have to talk about carrot as well as radish. nor of health without them. Our chinese call the carrot as second ginseng.

We'd better not talk about financial crisis today. Both of us have benn in a hard circumstances. Chinese workers have no job, USA, AND Europe's workers are also out of work. Do you delight at this situation? you may have a good job.

There is no worker class now in China. NewsPapers call them peasants labors. As matter of fact, most of them go to work after middle school. they really dont know how to do farmjob. Much farm land become a part of city.they lost land as well.another side, machinization in the country gets less and less peasants work there.

interested in other vegetabe to lost weight? I can speak more ...

Can you post a picture of "Jinjie", I can't figure out what you mean ?

financial crisis.......Do you delight at this situation?

What on Earth are you talking about ? I suggested no such thing.

When your newspapers talk of "peasant labour", it's maybe just a historical relic. Old phrase that creates an image the government like. UK newspapers talk of "working class", but it doesn't exist in the same way it did. Our Politicians like to say the UK is a "class-less" society. Not very true, boundaries of money/education still exist, and peoples destiny still depends very much on the family they are born into. Our politicians don't have any class, but that is a very different meaning of the word - too hard to describe on a zero calorie thread.

I've heard of people hand-polinating fruit (pears, I think) in China, due to a bee shortage. It's hard to imagine anyone doing such work in the UK.

I've just finished a bag of Sunflower seeds - don't know how good they are, but they taste nice.

These are considered parrot-feed. Sunflower oil is used for frying birds which were previously fed with sunflower seeds, and vice-versa

Long live Vegis. I am vegi by birth. I am 5'11" tall and weigh 72 kg.I am 68 years young still rocking.I eat lots of fruits and vegetables. I do not suffer from any kind of major disease. I go for morning walk and do one hour yoga. As retired person time is not a problem for me. So be vegi and live healthy life.

Suresh Sharma.

So what about crawfish, eh? Damn mudbugs sure are tasty, but peeling 'em takes more energy than they contain. The perfect diet food!

PS- They raise them in China, too

Celery certainly is not a negative calorie food, but what about cardboard, wax or inedible plastics. These little yummies certainly are high in fiber, all that gets consumed comes out in the end. The act of chewing these delicacies certainly burns more calories than gets digested.

I could go on but I think I made my point.

all my life have eaten these and thrown the good thins away,you have to belive me,there is bottle of liqur with morula and I am seeing this bottle for last one year,it has stayed unmolested.I am 5ft5in 200lbs plus and 70yrs.Asweet thing was telling me about zero caleri and empty calery or was it celary which I can get for a fifth of amercon dorar.all donations can be routed thro moderater