How Can a Giant Pickle Be Zero Calories?

@Pigglies (9329)
United States
October 15, 2008 11:35pm CST
I was eating a giant pickle that came in one of those single serving packages. And I happened to look at the nutrition information. It said the pickle was 0 calories. How can that be? Those things have to have some energy in them if they're that big. Don't they?
3 responses
ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
17 Oct 08
I think it might be the number of calories in the food as compaired to the it takes to digest the food.
Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
17 Oct 08
Can they factor that in though? It seems like that would be different for different people.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
17 Oct 08
I think for pickles, since they go thru so much cooking and vineger bath and stuff, most of the few calories they had before they started, they can do so.
Debs_place
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
17 Oct 08
Don't forget...pickles are just cucumbers that got dressed up. I am going to guess that some legal loophole allows it to be a 0 calorie food ...you know maybe it is under 10 calories per serving or something like that. I would not think they have any energy there are no carbs or fat...they are water and some fiber.
Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
17 Oct 08
Yeah, but I thought pickles still had calories. I guess it could be per serving since it says there are 5 servings in the bag (even though it was one pickle). The bad thing is, you get 80% of your daily salt allowance just eating that one pickle. Yikes!
Thoroughrob
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
16 Oct 08
You would think there would at least be a few.
Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
17 Oct 08
See, that's what I figured. Because even celery has calories even though those calories are made up for just by chewing and digesting it.