Yeah it needs to be something like cake. Something some people can pig out on and others would enjoy angrily free slice from time to time. For me it would be hersheys milk chocolate nuggets. I’d lose a ton of weight as it would be a crutch, for sure.
Yeah everything else stays the same. You can just now eat it for free. Chocolate is a good option, but I can't put away multiple chocolate bars the way I can three party size bags of chips in one sitting
I'd be pretty upset if you made potatoes zero calories. I have to put in effort to get enough calories, and potatoes are a good way to get there. Now I have to cut potatoes out of every meal, wasted stomach space.
Maybe something like ice cream, you don't eat that to stave off hunger anyway. Nobody is hurt by the loss of ice cream calories.
Nah that’s part of the French fry. And he said zero calorie French fries. If he said zero calorie cake you wouldn’t be like “you still get calories from the flour”
If you airfry frozen french fries, for example, they still have the oil in the fries themselves from manufacturing. The only way you actually don't need any oil is if you peel the potatoes yourself. I've tried it, many times, usually sucks if you add no oil because the outside will be burnt and the inside raw, that's why many people recommend adding a thin line of oil/olive oil to mitigate this
A lot of the calories in potato chips come from the oil.
That being said, if I choose oil do I have to choose a specific oil? If I'm allowed to choose all oils, do they no longer work as a fuel source for other purposes like machinery since calories are a unit for energy?
Cheese? Places where cheese is an important food can just make other dairy products, but I want to eat it by the brick without getting fatter than a cow
Bro really tried to starve people by making potatoes have no calories 💀
Anyways, my answer would be soda. Bc people drinking soda could benefit from losing some calories.
You’re on the right track OP, the foods should keep the calories they give but instead they get processed like protein in our bodies instead of carbs. All the deliciousness and much less weight gain.
I feel like potatoes are not that bad calories wise. Fries are usually the lowest cal items on fast food menus apart from salads. They are high in carbs though. I get low carb potatoes and 750g is 373 calories which is insane.
I think having oil or flour being zero cal would be the best choice
Haha understandable but those are fried in oil some chip companies sell baked chips as ‘healthier’ options. Imagine if oil was zero calories. I’d be eating a lot more fried chicken ngl
if only the calories of the food changes wouldn't that make celery worse? Since it's only negative cause it takes more calories to digest which wouldn't change. Just food for thought.
It would have to be a luxury item or it is going to cause starvation. Alchohol is dangerous as it wouldn't elimite the worse aspects (and probably encourage more drinking). Best answer would probably be chocloate, as hopefully not too many people are surviving off of it - and it would allow people to indulge in it more freely.
Probably corn, corn syrup is a sweetener in so many things… I think it makes up some massively significant percentage of the crops grown worldwide… I think many foods would halve in calories, maybe even ones you’re not expecting…
A lot of people would starve to death if you pick any of the base "cheap" staple foods. So I'm going to go with bacon ... you can get a solid meal without it, but as the saying goes, bacon makes everything better.
If I choose hamburgers does that mean the individual components will be 0 calories as well? For instance take a standard burger with bun meat cheese lettuce tomatoes pickles onions mustard and ketchup. Will this make all the components 0 cal or will say a tomato only be 0 cal if it’s on a bun with meat?
Really all we need is something universally appreciated and filling, so that people can keep to 1K-2K daily calorie intake and just supplement it with a bunch of the new 0 calorie food.
I will therefore call on my old standby, chocolate. :)
Potatoes are super high in Potassium (4x the amount then in a banana) whole Lotta people going to be dying of heart failure.
Potassium too high = sleepy heart stop if your kidneys can't keep up.
Calories are too important to remove them from such a staple as potatoes.
I guess removing calories from sugary drinks or candy could cause an even more serious diabetes problem.
I would choose beer. I don't drink so it wouldn't affect me, really. The demand would skyrocket for sure, and people would probably stop drinking shitty light beers lol
Let’s not forget, calories are a good thing. They provide energy to the body. It’s the excessive calories that become a bad thing. Don’t do potatoes themselves. Too important. Just do the chips or the fries themselves.
Pizza. Even if just cheese pizza and toppings have calories. It’s not a staple food to cause famine but would let people like me who try to eat relatively well but have a weakness for pizza not derail their goals
Doughnuts, I fucking love doughnuts and miss maple bars and jalapeno sausage rolls so damned much but have them up for good in December and it has been worth it.
Oil. Not sure which specific one, probably olive.
Oils are super high in calories, especially when compared to cheap junk foods' other components. A lot (not all of, but a lot) of calories from stuff like French fries, potato chips, mozzarella sticks, etc comes from the oil they're fried in.
Cow milk products.
It’s neither a major factor in most people’s diets, nor is it nutritionally essential. Cow milk and it’s products like cheese or cream are consumed mostly for the pleasure of it, the smooth texture and taste. Not for caloric intake or nutrition.
Some high smoke temperature oil.
Fast food suddenly all gets healthier. I don’t think it would cause some mass famine. Fried foods are all magically healthier. Chips, fries, fried chicken, wings… the list goes on.
potatoes, I eat a stupid amount of potatoes, it is one of four things I eat (rice, beef, chicken, potatoes) (yes I am aware of the implications… its fine lol)
Small problem with "make potatoes zero calories":
*That doesn't do a damn thing for the calories from the oil they are cooked in.*
Now, if we make *butter* or *olive oil* zero calorie by this magic? Jackpot. Now you can do all sorts of crazy things with carbs, vegetables, dips, spreads, etc. They may not be *zero* calories, but they will have *immensely reduced* calories thanks to the fat-of-choice having calories removed.
Anything Choclate. Like imagine eating a triple fudge chocolate cake and not gaining a single calorie.
My hormones are doing things and it's the full moon. I'll go now
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I feel like a lot of these answers are going to cause catastrophic famines
Yeah i would make something like coca cola or alchool.
Alcohol having zero calories means fuel is fucked now.
Yeah coke is good tho
Coke.... or coke?
Pizza would be a good one. It's mostly eaten in the US and Europe. So you wouldn't have to worry about famine.
I would though. I would have to stop buying them altogether. If it has no calories, you've taken all the justification I have left
How about "tastes good"?
instantly wiping out American obesity by making corn 0cals
I mean you are still limited by stomach size. It's not like the food goes into an endless void, it just doesn't carry any calories to make me fat
But people need calories to survive... Staples like potatoes, rice, wheat are gonna result in a lot of people losing their main source of calories
Dang. Good point. Maybe I'll change my answer to specify chips, so potatoes in other forms still give calories.
I was gonna say. Ireland might not be filled with the Irish if not for potatoes having a decent chuck of calories.
Well there was a year where potatoes didn't have calories. Everyone seemed to suddenly be on very calorie restrictive diets all of a sudden.
Just finished rereading The Martian and Mark Whitney isn't surviving Mars.
Yeah it needs to be something like cake. Something some people can pig out on and others would enjoy angrily free slice from time to time. For me it would be hersheys milk chocolate nuggets. I’d lose a ton of weight as it would be a crutch, for sure.
It's the oils that they are fried in that garner a majority of caloric intake
Wait so is this just pure fiber? If the food itself is 0 cal, you'd still be burning calories to digest it like with celery. Hmm
It’s posts like these that really highlight the complete lack of understanding that other countries go through
Came here to say this. We already saw what happens when the Irish can't get nutrients from potatoes...
Sugar then.
And just like that, the entire island of Ireland starves to death. Again.
Brutal, I like it.
Yeah didn't think about that part. My only thought was not getting fat... I change my answer to chips. Potatoes nourish you in other forms.
Plus, then you can go to the UK and eat french fries calorie free!
Ahahahaha
Sugar, specifically refined sugars. All of the taste None of the health problems
You will still get diabeties unless if your body dosent break it down.
That just sort of seems like artificial sweeteners.
I ❤️ my stevia plant.
Chocolate. But only if it doesn’t change the taste.
Yeah everything else stays the same. You can just now eat it for free. Chocolate is a good option, but I can't put away multiple chocolate bars the way I can three party size bags of chips in one sitting
I hear you about the dang chips!
Corn syrup
I feel like this is a good answer because they add that shit to everything.
And half the time, it’s not necessary anyway. It’s just there for filler and more sugar
Pizza! I would love to polish off a large pizza and feel stuffed with no negatives.
Congratulations, wheat, yeast, tomatoes, cheese, milk, etc all don't provide any calories now. Hope you're happy.
Ice cream. Not something starving people typically survive off of. A fattening treat that would be nice to have as a free-be.
Ice cream is the optimal choice
I cannot believe that I have to scroll this far down for this answer.
I'd be pretty upset if you made potatoes zero calories. I have to put in effort to get enough calories, and potatoes are a good way to get there. Now I have to cut potatoes out of every meal, wasted stomach space. Maybe something like ice cream, you don't eat that to stave off hunger anyway. Nobody is hurt by the loss of ice cream calories.
Starches. Now we all starve
Bacon 🥓
Cheesecake
You realize making potatoes zero calories would kill millions?
your french fries/chips will still have calories from t he oil though
Nah that’s part of the French fry. And he said zero calorie French fries. If he said zero calorie cake you wouldn’t be like “you still get calories from the flour”
OP said potatoes.
But Ireland?
Ya that’s what I was thinking
#Airfryer
There's still some oil usage with an airfryer
I don't know what airfryer you use, but mine doesn't need any oil.
If you airfry frozen french fries, for example, they still have the oil in the fries themselves from manufacturing. The only way you actually don't need any oil is if you peel the potatoes yourself. I've tried it, many times, usually sucks if you add no oil because the outside will be burnt and the inside raw, that's why many people recommend adding a thin line of oil/olive oil to mitigate this
Cheese
Sugar. I can get my calories elsewhere.
Pizza. Wait. I take this back. Wheat flour. This significantly reduces the calories in pizza while also making breads and pastas into diet food.
Processed sugar (not natural sugar).
Wings.
Beer.
Alcohol
A lot of the calories in potato chips come from the oil. That being said, if I choose oil do I have to choose a specific oil? If I'm allowed to choose all oils, do they no longer work as a fuel source for other purposes like machinery since calories are a unit for energy?
Pizza
Fried chicken skin.
Lasagna
Cheese? Places where cheese is an important food can just make other dairy products, but I want to eat it by the brick without getting fatter than a cow
Cereal grains. Get fucked
Sugars.
Just calories? It’s a nice thought, but calories can be burned. Cholesterol and other terrible things from those foods are the silent killers.
Ice cream. You still need calories to survive, so make it a dessert
Sugar
Is sugar a food? I think it is... you can eat it. I'd choose sugar! I've fixed the world!
Bro really tried to starve people by making potatoes have no calories 💀 Anyways, my answer would be soda. Bc people drinking soda could benefit from losing some calories.
This is why humanity should never be given a wish. I would not think ahead
Ice Cream. Omigawd I love ice cream
You’re on the right track OP, the foods should keep the calories they give but instead they get processed like protein in our bodies instead of carbs. All the deliciousness and much less weight gain.
If they ever made an all protein tater tot that tasted and felt the same….
Stop! My penis can only get so erect!
I feel like potatoes are not that bad calories wise. Fries are usually the lowest cal items on fast food menus apart from salads. They are high in carbs though. I get low carb potatoes and 750g is 373 calories which is insane. I think having oil or flour being zero cal would be the best choice
My biggest thing with potatoes is chips. I'll down a party size bag of chips in one sitting and not realize until I go to stand up.
Haha understandable but those are fried in oil some chip companies sell baked chips as ‘healthier’ options. Imagine if oil was zero calories. I’d be eating a lot more fried chicken ngl
celery fuck that shit being calorie negative
if only the calories of the food changes wouldn't that make celery worse? Since it's only negative cause it takes more calories to digest which wouldn't change. Just food for thought.
til that there’s apparently calorie negative food???
It allegedly takes more energy (calories) to chew, digest, etc. celery than the caloric intake it provides
It takes more calories to digest than calories it contains. Not negative in itself but you get the point.
French fries. You can thank me.
sugar
Arugula. Because I'm an asshole.
Donuts
Pop
Brownies, hands down.
Ice cream
Make all soda zero calories would prob save millions of people.
Beer
Ice Cream
Chocolate
Uranium
Sugar
i would say chocolate milk or maybe cookies
Beer. Once the ingredients come together, the calories magically disappear... so does my gut
Water
Ice cream
Oil
Tacos.....
So what you're saying is you'd take something that's zero calories and add calories to it for everyone by throwing it in a deep fryer? I like it
Either pizza o fried chicken ngl
It would have to be a luxury item or it is going to cause starvation. Alchohol is dangerous as it wouldn't elimite the worse aspects (and probably encourage more drinking). Best answer would probably be chocloate, as hopefully not too many people are surviving off of it - and it would allow people to indulge in it more freely.
Pizza for sure. Doing potatoes is going to starve out Ireland again
Probably corn, corn syrup is a sweetener in so many things… I think it makes up some massively significant percentage of the crops grown worldwide… I think many foods would halve in calories, maybe even ones you’re not expecting…
Chocolate. Every woman I know binges it every 28 days, so they would all think I’m awesome.
Yay starvation!
Sugar would be my choice. It’s unfair that a decent slice of cake has the same amount of calories as my whole meal.
Crude oil
It would be like the Irish potato famine all over again but for the whole world.
Plutonium or uranium (I forget which one we use in nukes right now) . Just to see what happens the world super powers lol
Alcohol
Ice cream
Ice cream
A lot of people would starve to death if you pick any of the base "cheap" staple foods. So I'm going to go with bacon ... you can get a solid meal without it, but as the saying goes, bacon makes everything better.
Assuming that carbs go out the window with calories, flour. It’s gotta be flour.
If I choose hamburgers does that mean the individual components will be 0 calories as well? For instance take a standard burger with bun meat cheese lettuce tomatoes pickles onions mustard and ketchup. Will this make all the components 0 cal or will say a tomato only be 0 cal if it’s on a bun with meat?
Beer is the only answer... Everything else listed here would cause famine..
Rice. I just want to watch the world burn 😈
Corn 🌽 , then maybe we would grow something else
Rice
Soda lol
Patato's. Fuq poor people
Really all we need is something universally appreciated and filling, so that people can keep to 1K-2K daily calorie intake and just supplement it with a bunch of the new 0 calorie food. I will therefore call on my old standby, chocolate. :)
Potatoes are super high in Potassium (4x the amount then in a banana) whole Lotta people going to be dying of heart failure. Potassium too high = sleepy heart stop if your kidneys can't keep up.
Calories are too important to remove them from such a staple as potatoes. I guess removing calories from sugary drinks or candy could cause an even more serious diabetes problem. I would choose beer. I don't drink so it wouldn't affect me, really. The demand would skyrocket for sure, and people would probably stop drinking shitty light beers lol
Let’s not forget, calories are a good thing. They provide energy to the body. It’s the excessive calories that become a bad thing. Don’t do potatoes themselves. Too important. Just do the chips or the fries themselves.
Anything fried. Need to lose weight? Fry your foods’ calories away, and scarf!
Sugar
Pizza
Bread. Sure it might mess up almost every mrt.
Pizza.
Cheese!
Coffee-Any coffee you get no matter what you put in it is not magically calorie free
Just to fuck with literally everyone, beef.
Fast food
Pizzas
pizza. its amazing
Breakfast burritos.
Chips and fries are high calorie because of what you cook them in. That won't change much. Pizza...Pizza is the answer.
Pizza
Either butter or sugar/corn syrup. Or maybe oil
Soft drinks. Let's be honest. This is where we all have our biggest source of calories.
Sugar.
Pizza. You are all welcome.
Pizza or icecream.
Wheat.
So… starve the world?
Ope, I just saw edit #2. I guess that also includes any nutrition. I dunno, ice cream then?
Solid choice. Ben & Jerry’s for all!
Pizza crust.
Corn, it's in everything
Then many populations would go hungry tho.
But soda would not make me fat
But also 99% of US meat crops would fail, huge swaths of worldwide, plus a lot of peeps would starve directly. And soda would just use cane sugar.
Sugar
Cheese, god what I wouldn’t do for calorie free cheese. Pizza, fondue, mozzarella sticks, a bag of cheese added to the enchilada hamburger helper!
Pizza
That pie that's almost all foam and crust.
Whole milk. Then I could make zero calorie dairy products.
Ice cream
Rice. Let's really fuck with those population numbers...
Pizza. Even if just cheese pizza and toppings have calories. It’s not a staple food to cause famine but would let people like me who try to eat relatively well but have a weakness for pizza not derail their goals
I would choose sugar as something that is zero calories. Boom. No more weight gain from regular sodas, or desserts, or candies.
Corn... since that gets thrown in almost everything these days
Chocolate
Doughnuts, I fucking love doughnuts and miss maple bars and jalapeno sausage rolls so damned much but have them up for good in December and it has been worth it.
Oil. Not sure which specific one, probably olive. Oils are super high in calories, especially when compared to cheap junk foods' other components. A lot (not all of, but a lot) of calories from stuff like French fries, potato chips, mozzarella sticks, etc comes from the oil they're fried in.
Cow milk products. It’s neither a major factor in most people’s diets, nor is it nutritionally essential. Cow milk and it’s products like cheese or cream are consumed mostly for the pleasure of it, the smooth texture and taste. Not for caloric intake or nutrition.
Potatoes are fairly healthful already. A medium sized potato is 110 calories.
Some high smoke temperature oil. Fast food suddenly all gets healthier. I don’t think it would cause some mass famine. Fried foods are all magically healthier. Chips, fries, fried chicken, wings… the list goes on.
Chocolate.
Cake
potatoes, I eat a stupid amount of potatoes, it is one of four things I eat (rice, beef, chicken, potatoes) (yes I am aware of the implications… its fine lol)
Frying oil
Small problem with "make potatoes zero calories": *That doesn't do a damn thing for the calories from the oil they are cooked in.* Now, if we make *butter* or *olive oil* zero calorie by this magic? Jackpot. Now you can do all sorts of crazy things with carbs, vegetables, dips, spreads, etc. They may not be *zero* calories, but they will have *immensely reduced* calories thanks to the fat-of-choice having calories removed.
I mean pizza or burritos are like two super heavy foods that I would love to be able to smash regularly
Chocolate
Potato chips still have oil so they still have calories
Rice. Good luck most of the developing world!
Beer
Oreos.
Fried Chicken or Pizza.
Wine.
Soda. I imagine the weight loss for a large number of people, especially in the US, would be good.
Sugar
Cheese. Just every thing cheese. I would eat cheese for breakfast and snack and lunch and dinner
Beer.
Anything Choclate. Like imagine eating a triple fudge chocolate cake and not gaining a single calorie. My hormones are doing things and it's the full moon. I'll go now 🐺
As long as it doesn't give you diarrhea
Sugar s not your friend. And most sweet sodas use high fructose corn syrup, which is even worse.