ZeroPoint Foods
I want to take a few minutes to explain what ZeroPoint Foods are for those who are not familiar with them. For many years one of the main features of the Weight Watchers program has been their point system. All foods are given a points value and your goal is to stay within your daily points allowance. Now with the Weight Watchers Freestyle program, many foods such as lean proteins, eggs, beans, lentils, tofu, nonfat plain yogurt, veggies, and fruit are called ZeroPoint Foods. The foods on this list form the foundation of a healthy eating pattern, so you don’t need to weigh, measure, or track any of them. They are a great way to stay within your daily points budget.
ZeroPoint Vegetables – You can enjoy most non-starchy vegetables for zero points on the plan. You will have to count any oil or butter the vegetables are cooked with. This includes fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables as long as they aren’t packed with any additional oil, sugars, or fats. There are a few vegetables that are not zero points including potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, parsnips, cassava, mushy peas, yuca, and olives.
ZeroPoint Fruits – Almost all fruits are zero points but they should be eaten in moderation since they can quickly add up and slow your weight loss. This includes fresh fruit as well as frozen, canned, or jarred fruit as long as it doesn’t have added sugar. However, avocados, plantains, and any fruit that is made into a drink or smoothie are not ZeroPoint foods. This is because a smoothie contains much more fruit than you would normally eat in one sitting. For example, you would not normally eat several whole fruits, a cup berries, and some pineapple in one sitting but is common to have all this and more in a large smoothie.
ZeroPoint Condiments, Flavor Enhancers, and Spices – The WWFreestyle program also includes as ZeroPoint Foods spices, low calorie, low sugar condiments, and many of the things that we use to enhance the flavor of foods. Some of them are vinegars, broth, fresh and dried spices and rubs, mustard, hot sauce, capers, and salsa. Note: These are zero points when used in small amounts but if you are using more in a recipe you may have to count the points.
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ZeroPoint Foods List by Category
ZeroPoint Dairy
- Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat, unsweetened
- Yogurt, plain, nonfat, unsweetened
- Yogurt, soy, plan
ZeroPoint Beans and Legumes
- Beans (refried, fat-free-canned)
- Beans (adzuki, black, broad/fava, butter, cannellini, cranberry, green, garbanzo, great northern, kidney, lima, lupini, mung, navy, pink, small white, snap, soy, string, wax, white)
- Chickpeas (garbanzo)
- Edamame
- Lentils
- Mung dal
- Salad, three-bean
- Succotash
ZeroPoint Fruits
- Apples
- Apricots
- Banana
- Beets
- Berries, mixed
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- Cantaloupe
- Clementines
- Cranberries
- Figs
- Guavas
- Grapes
- Grapefruit
- Kumquats
- Melon
- Honeydew
- Jackfruit
- Kiwifruit
- Lemon
- Lime
- Litchis
- Mangoes
- Melon balls
- Nectarine
- Oranges
- Papayas
- Passion fruit
- Peaches
- Pears
- Persimmons
- Pineapple
- Plumcots
- Plums
- Pomegranate seeds
- Pomegranates
- Pomelo
- Pumpkin
- Raspberries
- Satsuma mandarin
- Starfruit
- Strawberries
- Tangelo
- Tangerine
- Watermelon
ZeroPoint Proteins
- Chicken breast, ground 98% fat-free
- Chicken breast or tenderloin (skinless, boneless or with bone)
- Egg substitutes
- Eggs
- Jerk chicken breast
- Satay, chicken, without peanut sauce
- Tofu, all varieties
- Turkey breast, ground, 98% fat-free
- Turkey breast or tenderloin, skinless, boneless or on the bone
- Turkey breast, skinless, smoked
- ZeroPoint Seafood
- Calamari (grilled)
- Caviar
- Fish (anchovies, arctic char, bluefish, branzino ((sea bass)), butterfish, carp, catfish, cod, drum, eel, flounder, grouper, haddock, halibut, herring, mackerel, mahimahi ((dolphinfish)), monkfish, orange roughy, perch, pike, pollack, pompano, rainbow trout ((steelhead)), rockfish, roe, sablefish ((including smoked)), salmon ((all varieties)), salmon, smoked ((lox)), sardines, sea bass, smelt, snapper, sole, striped bass, striped mullet, sturgeon ((including smoked)); white sucker, sunfish ((pumpkinseed)), swordfish, tilapia, tilefish, tuna ((all varieties)), turbot, whitefish ((including smoked)), whitefish and pike ((store-bought)), whiting)
- Shellfish: abalone, clams, crab (including Alaska king, blue, dungeness, lump crabmeat, queen) crayfish, cuttlefish, lobster (including spiny lobster), mussels, octopus, oysters, scallops, shrimp, squid
- Sashimi
ZeroPoint Sauces and Condiments
- Lemon zest
- Lime zest
- Pico de gallo
- Pumpkin puree
- Salsa, verde
- Salsa, fat free
- Sauerkraut
- Tomato puree
- Tomato sauce
Note: There are plenty of other spices and seasonings that have a 0 SmartPoints value but aren’t considered ZeroPoint foods. Only foods that form the building blocks of healthy habits are included in the ZeroPoint foods list.
ZeroPoint Vegetables
- Arrowroot
- Artichoke Hearts
- Arugula
- Artichokes
- Artichoke Hearts
- Bamboo Shoot
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Broccoli rabe
- Broccoli slaw
- Broccolini
- Brussels sprouts
- Bok choy
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Corn (baby, white, yellow, kernels, on the cob)
- Collards
- Coleslaw mix
- Eggplant
- Escarole
- Endive
- Fennel
- Garlic
- Ginger root
- Greens: beet, collard, dandelion, kale, mustard, turnip
- Greens, mixed baby
- Hearts of palm
- Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke)
- Jicama
- Kohlrabi
- Leeks
- Lettuce
- Mung bean sprouts
- Mushroom caps
- Mushrooms (all varieties)
- Okra
- Onions
- Parsley
- Pea shoots
- Peapods
- Peas and carrots
- Peas (black-eyed, cowpeas (blackeyes, crowder, southern), young pods with seeds, green, pigeon, snow (Chinese pea pods); split, sugar snap)
- Peppers
- Pepperoncini
- Pickles
- Pimientos
- Radishes
- Radicchio
- Rutabagas
- Salad, mixed greens
- Salad, without dressing
- Scallions
- Seaweed/ Nori seaweed
- Shallots
- Spinach
- Sprouts
- Squash, summer (all varieties)
- Squad, winter (all varieties)
- Swiss chard
- Taro leaves and shoots
- Tomatoes, all varieties
- Turnips
- Vegetable sticks
- Vegetables, mixed
- Vegetables, stir fry, without sauce
- Water chestnuts
- Watercress
Some fruits and vegetables contain SmartPoints values. These include:
- Avocados
- Cassava/Yuca/Plantains
- Olives
- Parsnips
- Potatoes
- Sweet potato
- Yams
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This is such an informative post, thank you so much for sharing this! I am not on this program but I like to be healthy and eat things that will make me feel good.
Wow, that’s a pretty long list of foods you can have. It’s impressive for dieters.
It has made sticking with this program so much easier than many of the other weight loss systems I’ve used.