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Nutrition: Fat-Burning Foods

Fat Burning Foods

Believe it or not there are fat-fighting and fat-burning foods. Before we show you a list of fat-burning foods, we want to explain how your body uses everything you eat. When you understand how your body works, you will not need our list anymore and you will automatically avoid foods full of saturated fats.

Why you can lose fat eating

You must understand that everything you eat will increase your metabolism. This usually takes thirty to fourty minutes to happen and shows that your body starts digesting what you just ate. The process of digesting food costs your body energy and burns calories. Depending on what you ate, the higher or lower is the amount of calories your body consumes for digestion.

Research shows that for protein digestion and absorption your body uses up to 25 per cent more energy than for digestion and absorption of carbohydrates. For fat absorption your body needs the least amount of energy and fats are processed very slowly. As you can imagine, there are foods that cost your body more fuel than others to be processed. Some are even said to produce "negative calories", these are the foods that can help you burn fat - the fat-burning foods. These fat-burning foods cost your body more energy for digestion, absorption, transportation than the actual energy found in them.

List of fat-burning foods

Of course you want to know what foods actually produce "negative calories". Among that list of fat-burning foods you can find fruits (like berries and melons), vegetables (like root vegetables, onions and herbs) but also high protein meat (like seafood).

Fat-burning Foods: Fruits

You can burn fat eating eating these fruits (from A-Z): Apples, Apricots, Blackberries, Blueberries, Cantaloupe, Cherries, Cranberries, Currants, Grapefruit, Grapes, Honeydew, Huckleberries, Kumquats, Lemons, Limes, Loganberries, Mangos, Nectarines, Oranges, Papaya, Peaches, Pears, Pineapple, Plums, Pomegranates, Prunes, Quince, Raspberries, Strawberries, Tangerines, Watermelon

Fat-burning Foods: Vegetables

You can burn fat eating these vegetables (from A-Z): Artichokes, Asparagus, Beet Greens, Beets, Belgian Endive, Black Salsify, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chervil, Chicory, Chives, Corn, Cucumbers, Dandelion Greens, Eggplant, Garlic, Green Beans, Green Peppers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Mustard Greens, Okra, Onions, Parsley leaves, Parsnips, Peas, Pumpkins, Radishes, Rhubarb, Rutabagas, Scallions, Shallots, Sorrel, Spinach, Squash, Sweet Potato, Tomato, Turnips, Watercress, Zucchini

Fat-burning Foods: Meat

You can burn fat eating these meats (from A-Z): Abalone, Bass, Buffalo Fish, Catfish, Chilean Sea Bass, Clams, Cod, Crab, Crayfish, Flounder, Frog Legs, Lobster, Mussels, Oysters, Shrimp, Steaks, Trout, Tuna, Turtle

Fat-Burning Food Tips

Of course you should not ruin the positive effect by adding sugars, dressings or melted butter to your fat-burning foods. Eat your fruits, vegetables and meats as simply as possible.