Dieting Question - How do pickles have 0 calories?

[Orsorum]

lol Bryophyte and pickles are funny together!

 

[spidey07]

oh yeah.

cucumber is most definately a vegetable.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
lol Bryophyte and pickles are funny together!

Heh. What?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Orsorum
lol Bryophyte and pickles are funny together!

Heh. What?

I'm trying to picture what your pickle people look like.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Orsorum
lol Bryophyte and pickles are funny together!

Heh. What?

I'm trying to picture what your pickle people look like.

Haha, I forgot I said that.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: Orsorum
lol Bryophyte and pickles are funny together!

Heh. What?

I'm trying to picture what your pickle people look like.

Haha, I forgot I said that.

Hehe, it was funny at the time. I'm tempted to change my nick to Pickles.

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Eli
I was actually pondering the same thing when I posted that, because at first I said carrot or corn.

But yes, technically a corn is a fruit. An ear of corn contains hundreds(or whatever) of little fruits.

Nope. Corn is a grain. The edible seeds of a grass. Same with wheat, rice, barley, etc.

Fruits are when you eat the seed-bearing ovaries of a flowering plant. Tomatoes, apples, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc.

Vegetables are when you eat the root, stalk, or leaf of a plant. Potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, etc.

edit: and there is no fscking way that pickles have 0 calories.

For the rest of my life I will never shake the mental that when I eat a fruit I'm eating the ovaries of something.

 

[Acanthus]

its so few calories that it doesnt matter.

Its probably some rediculously low number rounded down.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Chu

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Eli
I was actually pondering the same thing when I posted that, because at first I said carrot or corn.

But yes, technically a corn is a fruit. An ear of corn contains hundreds(or whatever) of little fruits.

Nope. Corn is a grain. The edible seeds of a grass. Same with wheat, rice, barley, etc.

Fruits are when you eat the seed-bearing ovaries of a flowering plant. Tomatoes, apples, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc.

Vegetables are when you eat the root, stalk, or leaf of a plant. Potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, etc.

edit: and there is no fscking way that pickles have 0 calories.

For the rest of my life I will never shake the mental that when I eat a fruit I'm eating the ovaries of something.

LOL, that's what I was thinking. "Mmm...ovaries."

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: notfred
The way they measure calories confuses me. It seems to be an inexact science, at the very least.

Shouldn't hot water contain calories?

A calorie is the amount of energy required to heat 1ml of water 1 degree C, right? From what starting temperature?

Shouldn't hot water contain some calories then?

How do they measure the energy in foods, burn them and see how hot water nearby gets? How much of that energy comes from the air and not the food?

What about food that goes through you? Do calorie counts take into account the fact that a good portion of your food comes out the other end without being absorbed by your body?

Calories applied to human ingestion have to do with the potential energy available when the body digests it. For instance, celery is considered a negative calorie food because it takes more energy to digest it than the body can use from it. So maybe that is how they come up with 0 calories for the pickles.

If the jar says 0 calories, but 1 gram of carbs, then those carbs may just be insoluble fiber.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Chu

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Eli
I was actually pondering the same thing when I posted that, because at first I said carrot or corn.

But yes, technically a corn is a fruit. An ear of corn contains hundreds(or whatever) of little fruits.

Nope. Corn is a grain. The edible seeds of a grass. Same with wheat, rice, barley, etc.

Fruits are when you eat the seed-bearing ovaries of a flowering plant. Tomatoes, apples, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc.

Vegetables are when you eat the root, stalk, or leaf of a plant. Potatoes, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, etc.

edit: and there is no fscking way that pickles have 0 calories.

For the rest of my life I will never shake the mental that when I eat a fruit I'm eating the ovaries of something.

:evil:

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: DWW

So anything containing seeds would be a fruit? Pumpkin is fruit?

Yes, by definition.

A vegetable doesen't contain seeds, like a carrot or beet.

Although we often mix them all up, since most people consider fruit to be sweet, and vegetables not..

So Green beans and peas or fruits?

WTF is a vegetable then?

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: DWW

So anything containing seeds would be a fruit? Pumpkin is fruit?

Yes, by definition.

A vegetable doesen't contain seeds, like a carrot or beet.

Although we often mix them all up, since most people consider fruit to be sweet, and vegetables not..

So Green beans and peas or fruits?

WTF is a vegetable then?

Green beans are "the ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds." Peas in the shell would be a fruit. Out of the shell, I believe they would be merely seeds, a part of a fruit. A vegetable is any part of a plant that isn't a fruit, botanically speaking.

Culinarily speaking, call it whatever floats your boat.

 

[Tsaico]

Well, according to the princeton folks, cucumbers are indeed vegetables, as they define a vegetable as the stalk, root, leaf, stems, or NONSWEET fruits of an hervaceous plant.

See?

And last I checked, unless sugar is added, cucumbers are indeed not sweet, so they are vegetables, regardless of their posession of seeds.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: Tsaico
Well, according to the princeton folks, cucumbers are indeed vegetables, as they define a vegetable as the stalk, root, leaf, stems, or NONSWEET fruits of an hervaceous plant.

See?

And last I checked, unless sugar is added, cucumbers are indeed not sweet, so they are vegetables, regardless of their posession of seeds.

Um, there is a difference between culinary and botanical definitions. Why are you even arguing about it? It just doesn't make sense. Things can be categorized differently based on context.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: HajikuFlip
I don't know about you guys, but I'm starting to get the word 'pickel' stuck in my head. It's such a odd and unique word to pronounce. ... pickel. Pickel. Pickel. PICKEL. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

pickel.

How did you spell pickle wrong six times when it is correctly spelled everywhere in this thread?

 

[DrPizza]

So.... I can sell corn on the cob, and list it as 0 calories, as long as on the label I put: "serving size, 2 kernels"