ZeroPoint cheat sheet: fruit (2024)

FAQs

Can you lose weight eating only zero point foods? ›

While Weight Watchers does not require or recommend that WW members eat zero points worth of food in a day, eating zero point foods for a few days can give your weight loss a jump start. This isn't a long-term plan but rather a way to quickly get back on track with healthy eating.

One list of ZeroPoint foods. These 200-plus foods are nutritional powerhouses that you can eat without weighing, measuring, or tracking. Your list may look slightly different than before, but this means every food and recipe has the same Points value for everyone.

If you're eating more fruits and vegetables than you used to, and you're using them as snacks, to bulk up your meals, or as a tide-me-over, then great! If you're eating more than two serves of fruit every day, purely because it's one of your ZeroPoint foods, you might want to pull back a little.

Every day, you're given a point allowance that you can “spend” on whatever foods you want. But there are also a large variety of ZeroPoint foods that you can eat as much as you want of. The list of over 200 options is so nutritious, they don't count towards your point total at all (click through for the full list).

Unlike many fad diets that promise unrealistic results over short periods of time, WeightWatchers says members can expect to lose 0.5 to 2 pounds (lb) [0.23 to 0.9 kilograms (kg)] per week, depending on their chosen plan.

It's true that fruits and veggies are zero when you eat them whole. But once they become part of a smoothie, the experience of eating them changes.

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But the truth is that it's hard to get too much fruit. In fact, most Americans don't eat enough of it. Adults should eat at least 1 ½ cups of fruit every day. However, a “fruitarian” diet, in which you eat almost nothing but fruit, can keep you from getting enough nutrients from other foods.

It doesn't matter what you cook your eggs with or in. Eggs are a ZeroPoint foods so they do not have any Points® values—even in a cake recipe. However other ingredients you're adding to your eggs may have Points, so make sure to track them.

Air-fried popcorn is zero points in Weight Watchers!

Is oatmeal a zero point food? ›

Plain oats—no matter the type—are a ZeroPoint food.

These zero point foods are high volume – low calorie foods – and they are super filling. So if you are filling your plate with zero point foods in addition to what you are eating, you will stay fuller longer, or even not feel like snacking in between meals because you are satisfied.

Fruit WILL be ZeroPoint food if it is: Fresh and frozen fruit without added sugars or fats. Canned in water. Canned in sugar-free artificially sweetened syrup.

A fruit is a ZeroPoint food if it's: Fresh or frozen without added sugars or fat. Canned in water.

That's right – you can eat as much as you want and not track a point! Weight Watchers purposefully makes a ton of foods zero points – and for good reason: it's fruits and vegetables! Specifically non-starchy vegetables.

1 Your assigned daily points are designed to track what you eat. Every food has a point value—members are instructed to use the allotted points per day, without going over or under.

Yes, these foods have calories, but the point of WW is to change food behavior and help you create a healthy lifestyle. By making these foods zero points, WW is nudging you to choose them over higher point foods.