Pickles anyone? - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

trnsfrmnreplace · 03-25-2006, 05:20 AM

Can anyone explain to me why half sour pickles are 0 calories?

angeleyezx · 03-25-2006, 08:05 AM

coz they are super yummy!

LockItUp · 03-25-2006, 10:18 AM

B/c of their serving size!

trnsfrmnreplace · 03-25-2006, 04:05 PM

!

... but i've never heard of anything "food wise" having 0 calories....

IS there anything else out there?

LockItUp · 03-25-2006, 05:29 PM

It doesn't really have no calories, they just don't have to put it on there if it's under a certain amount, so anything else out there like that would be the same thing.

(If carbs, fat, and/or protien are under .5 grams they don't have to post it, but for example if there is a half gram of fat, that's about 4 calories, and for the others would be 2, so if it had all it would be about 10 caloires a serving really, but they just don't have to put that, not that 10 calories is a lot or anything. Maybe you already knew that, but for those who didn't, that's their trick and it's the same for trans fat, that's how those fake butters can say no calories and no trans fat, they all have about .5 g of trans fat per serving.)

angeleyezx · 03-25-2006, 05:43 PM

water? lol

erm so let me get this straight, if I break up a cookie for example into small enough crumbs and had one crumb, that crumb would have less than a kcal hence 0 kcals so I can eat all the crumbs and eat no calories!!

trnsfrmnreplace · 03-25-2006, 05:45 PM

hahahaha.

LockItUp · 03-25-2006, 07:26 PM

Yeah that's pretty much what they are saying, makes no sense huh?

britomart · 03-25-2006, 10:01 PM

I guess it works for things that you're not going to OD on, like pickles and margerine. No one's going to list 'one cookie crumb' as a serving size

But that's interesting info, though, I didn't know that!

teahoney · 03-25-2006, 10:49 PM

I've heard that with pickles and celery, you actually burn more calories eating it then what they contain.

britomart · 03-26-2006, 08:06 AM

Yeah, I've heard that too... with apples as well.... Another way for people to get suckered into buying $20 e-books for "the negative calorie diet"!

I read a post on it somewhere in the vast depths of these forums... It's quack just like everything besides hard work and a good attitude!

goingforfit · 03-26-2006, 04:29 PM

It's a cucumber and vinegar - at a small serving size... probably a full sized one has something like 10 calories or something ridiculous.