Asparagus : A Great Diet Food

If you don’t mind your pee stinking from eating what is actually my personally favorite veggie, then you may really want to consider incorporating asparagus into your diet – quite a bit, if you are a person who is mindful of their figure.  It’s actually been revealed as an excellent diet food for a few reasons that you may not even be aware of.

Not to mention, asparagus has a naturally wonderful flavor and texture that make it one of the favorite veggies by many people, including myself.  You can make it super fancy with some lemon juice and olive oil on the grill, or you can simply steam it and put a little low fat butter or butter spray and sea salt on it for a delicious treat that adds fat fighting and nutrition to your complete meal.  Shoot, I could make a whole meal of asparagus, that’s how much I love it, and I don’t even feel like I’m being “good” when I eat it which I think is part of the appeal.  When it is cooked right, it tastes like something that is rich because it is so flavorful, so you get the best of both worlds with this food.

Let’s talk about calories. It’s hard to believe, but asparagus only contains about 26 calories per CUP!  That’s pretty amazing, considering you can have four cups of it and still only round out to about 100 calories, and if you use spray butter instead of the real thing for flavoring, then you’re really not adding anything else to your meal calorie wise.  I will many times eat an entire bag of the brand that I happen to like called Hanover, which is just the tips and spears, so it’s the most tender part of the veggie.  You do have to be careful not to eat too far up the stalk, as it gets very fibery and not flavorful.

Another relatively unknown fact about asparagus is that it is a pretty potent diuretic, which means it makes you urinate more, so you eliminate more of your
excess water weight, which means less bloat and less water weight around the areas where it matter most, so you can fit into your clothes more easily.  It’s a great detox food for that reason.  But the fact that it’s a diuretic isn’t the reason for that funky smell it emits in your urine, that’s because of a chemical that is unique to asparagus that chemically reacts with your urine to create that icky sewage smell.  It’s still worth it in my book!