Calories in Celery

Did you know that while sleeping you can burn around 60 calories per hour, 85 calories while eating, and 130 calories while typing on the computer? So I will lose around 130 calories by the time I finish writing this article and wouldn't even have realized it. In order to lead a healthy life, we are naturally inclined towards eating fresh fruits and vegetables, exercising on a regular basis, staying away from junk foods, and concentrating on healthy recipes. Celery is a vegetable that has no calories. The number of calories burnt while chewing and digesting celery is the same as the number of calories in celery - 6. This number is similar to those in vegetables like cherry tomato, cucumber, Chinese cabbage, and iceberg lettuce.

Celery Calorie Count

We all know that all foods have calories and the total number of calories depend on the quantity. The daily calorie intake should be less than the calories taken in the body. Eating fruits and vegetables on a regular basis is a healthy way of lowering total calories in a day. Celery is a vegetable which provides less calories and can be substituted for unhealthy snacks. Let's look at the calorie count table to better understand this vegetable.

Celery	Weight in Grams	Calories
Cooked w/ salt	100	27
Cooked w/o salt	100	18
Raw	100	16
Stalk	64	10
Stalk	40	6
Stick	28	4

You can make a wholesome, nutritious salad with ingredients present in your refrigerator like celery, green apples, crunchy pears, Iceberg lettuce, carrots, and cilantro. Mix the ingredients together with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, salt and black pepper. The salad is filling, but it won't fill you up with unnecessary calories. The best part about this recipe is that the calories in the salad is approximately 62.

Health Benefits of Celery

Celery is not just a boring, crunchy vegetable. It is powerhouse of various health benefits and nutritional values.

• Eating celery on a regular basis can help in lowering blood pressure.
• You can also make celery juice which lowers cholesterol, acidity, and relieves constipation.
• Celery has alkaline minerals which calms the nervous system.
• Drinking celery juice reduces food cravings, which internally helps in keeping your weight in control.
• Eating celery helps prevent the formation of kidney stones, but if you have it, celery assists in breaking and eliminating them.

Celery's nutritional values include high contents of vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, and C. It is also rich in potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, and essential amino acids. The best characteristic about celery is that it doesn't lose any nutritional values even after it has cooked. The nutritional values stay intact and the health benefits of celery can be availed. Although there are many nutritional values of celery, don't alter your diet so much that all you eat is celery for lunch and even for dinner. Incorporate celery in such a way that you take in as many health benefits of celery as possible.

Celery is one of the vegetables that does marvels for the waistline. To obtain the benefits from the amount of calories, you shouldn't eat it by itself. There are important nutrients present in different fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and meat products that are required. Hence, the key to eating right is not only to ingest too much of good foods, but also to avoid many bad ones. The presence of celery in your refrigerator means that this time around you are serious about your weight loss plan.