10 Ultra Low Calorie Foods
Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites
Foods that contain minimal calories for the daily diet.
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Looking for fruits that are ultra low in calories? Here's our top ten picks:
- 1/2 grapefruit (use Splenda or Equal to sweeten) - 35 calories
- 3 medium apricots - 51 calories
- 1 cup cantaloupe - 55 calories
- 1/2 cup of cherries - 37 calories
- 1 cup of cranberries - 45 calories
- 1 cup of grapes - 55 calories
- 1 medium guava - 45 calories
- 1 cup of honeydew melon - 60 calories
- 1/2 papaya (about 5 1/2 ounces) 60 calories
- 1 medium peach - 40 calories
All Selections From Fruit Group
You may notice that all of the foods that we’ve listed are
from the healthy fruit group. This does
not mean that foods from other groups aren't also low in caloric content.
For example, almost all of the foods that are housed within the
vegetable food group are minimal in caloric content. One cup of raw spinach contains
about seven calories. Another example is
1 cup of lettuce which contains about five calories. There are very few foods within the vegetable
group which are substantial in caloric content as well as dietary fat.
Vegetables With Higher Caloric Content
Potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and winter squash tend to hold
more calories than most of the other foots within the vegetable group yet they
are still low in caloric content when compared to processed foods.
While you are on a weight loss plan it is important to keep
in mind that all foods in their natural state come to the table and with minimal
calories and fat grams.
Example of Healthy Meal Plate Due to Planning While Dieting
Let’s look into the kitchen a dieter Annie. She is preparing her dinner and one of the
foods on her meal plate is a baked potato.
In her former unhealthy diet Annie would have fried the potato in bacon grease
to add flavor to the potato.
Now that Annie is on a weight loss plan, she has learned to
enjoy the earthy flavors of the potato and because of such she now prefers this
flavor over the potato that was prepared using bacon grease.
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She also has a serving of grilled onions on her meal plate for dinner time.
Comparisons to Former Unhealthy Diet
In her former unhealthy
diet, she would have sliced the onion and then dipped it into a batter
consisting of flour and cornmeal. Then she would have dipped the battered onion
into cooking oil.
Back in her unhealthy diet those onion rings would have
contained about 500 calories for 10 rings.
For that amount of calories she can enjoy an entire meal in her new
weight loss plan.
Another technique that Annie uses in her new diet is to
combine foods from the different food groups into her recipes to achieve the
maximum nutritional values from her meals while adding tons of flavor to her foods. Natural foods work wonderful well to create gourmet-like meals.
For example, rather than preparing a side salad of chopped lettuce and cherry tomatoes, Annie now tosses in a few healthy ingredients to join the lettuce and tomatoes. She might add dried cranberries, English walnuts, reduced fat cheese, and hulled sunflower seeds.
And rather than drowning her salad in fatty dressing, she uses balsamic vinegar these days which contains a
skinny five calories per serving.
In summary: Like
Annie, by making a few changes to your daily diet you can save calories and fat
which in turn can promote excellent weight loss results.
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