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    Oliphaunt
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    Default Are there calories in spices?

    Do we get any nutrition at all out of pepper, chili powder, paprika et al? Is it a matter of volume or is there nothing there to start with?

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    Stegodon
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    Default Re: Are there calories in spices?

    You can get all sorts of great information from the USDA's Nutritional Database.

    So, for instance, the calories in one teaspoon of the spices you mentioned are:

    black pepper = 5
    chili powder = 8
    paprika = 6

    And yes, these spices do provide some measure of nutritional value, but remember that you're not necessarily getting that big a volume of the spices in your food.
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    Default Re: Are there calories in spices?

    Thanks for posting that link, ulfjorr. I've got it bookmarked since it'll figure out calorie count by portion size in grams, and unlike Weight Watchers, it's free!
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    Default Re: Are there calories in spices?

    I dunno, but I'll give this anecdote;

    I'm a packrat. I keep things I should have thrown away a very long time ago. About two months ago I opened a kitchen cabinet and saw a ton of spices that I'd been dragging around for more than 15 years. Figured "I never use them and they're way old, I may as well dump them". Dumped the spices, with the exception of the really strong stuff like the cloves, into two pots with struggling, craggly, almost dead catnip in them.

    In less than a week, the catnip was going nuts with growth.

    Well, then I dumped some red pepper into the one and it kinda died back a little, but the one with the oregano, sage, parsley and other mild crap in it really took off.
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