Hydrating Meals & Power Foods

Hydrating and scoring antioxidants can be a one-shot deal!

Studies suggest that water can suppress appetite, decrease caloric intake, boost metabolism and even allow you to push harder during workouts. 

Yes, drinking water is great, but sometimes you need a boost to meet your hydration goals during the summer heat. What could be better than foods that hydrate, keep you full and help you get lean? Drink up with these top 10 hydrating fruits and vegetables! Even better...the 10 hydrating fruits and vegetables are 0 points in Weight Watchers Points Plus program!

Know Your Weight Watchers Power Foods

An easy way to include the best-for-you foods..Power Foods are nutritious and satisfying foods that work hard to help you lose weight.

WW uses their own formula to evaluate foods within categories, based on their ability to keep you full and their impact on health. Those that ranked the best are called Power Foods. Simply put, they keep you satisfied longer and deliver more nutrients for their PointsPlus values!

Which foods are Power Foods? You can identify Power Foods on Weight Watchers site by the green triangle icon. If you’re used to the Filling Foods list, be sure to check the Power Foods list, as the two lists are not the same. Below is Weight Watchers Fruits & Vegetables Power Foods List. Additional Power Foods will provided under separate entry.

This entry includes Fruits & Vegetables Power Foods Only
Fruits
Included: All fresh, frozen or canned fruits without added sugar (unsweetened) —whether or not it has PointsPlus values per serving. Not included: Dried fruit, fruit juices.


Apple
Applesauce, unsweetened
Apricots
Banana
Berries, mixed
Blackberries
Blueberries
Boysenberries, fresh or frozen,
unsweetened
Cantaloupe
Casaba melon
Cherries, fresh
Clementine
Cranberries, fresh
Currants, fresh
Dates, fresh
Elderberries
Figs
Fruit cocktail, canned, unsweetened
Gooseberries
Grapefruit
Grapes
Guava
Honeydew melon
Jackfruit, uncooked
Kiwifruit
Lemon
Litches (lychees)
Lime
Loganberries
Loquats
Mandarin orange (tangerine)
Mango
Melon balls
Mulberries
Nectarine
Orange
Papaya
Passion fruit
Peach
Pear
Pineapple
Plums
Pomegranate
Raspberries
Sharon fruit
Pumpkin
Starfruit (carambola)
Strawberries, fresh
Tangelo
Tangerine (Mandarin orange)
Watermelon
Most fruits and vegetables have zero PointsPlus values:

Most fruits and vegetables are Power Foods, and they’re such filling, healthy choices that we want you to feel encouraged to eat them. We’ve already factored the caloric impact of these foods into our calculations of your daily PointsPlus Target; that’s why most have zero PointsPlus values.
So when you feel like you need a snack, consider reaching for these. And yes, you will still lose weight — even if you eat bananas.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that you can overeat as long as you’re having fruit. You should always eat reasonable portions, and stop eating when you’re satisfied.
Vegetables
Included: Most fresh, frozen, or canned without added sugar or oil — whether or not it has PointsPlus values per serving; potatoes — white, red, sweet. Not included: Juices, vegetables prepared with ingredients that are not Weight Watchers Power Foods (for example, corn in butter sauce, dried tomatoes packed in oil); avocados; French fries; olives; plantains; sweet pickles.


Artichoke hearts, cooked
Artichokes, cooked
Arugula
Asparagus, cooked or uncooked
Beans
Beans, refried, fat-free, canned
Beets
Bok choy, uncooked
Borscht
Broccoli, cooked or uncooked
Brussels sprouts, cooked
Cabbage, all varieties, cooked
or uncooked
Carrots
Cauliflower, cooked
Celeriac, cooked
Celery
Chard, Swiss, cooked
Collards, cooked or uncooked
Corn
Corn on the cob
Cucumber
Dandelion greens, cooked or uncooked
Edamame, in pods
Eggplant, cooked or uncooked
Endive
Escarole
Fennel
Giardeniera (vegetable medley, without
olives, packed in vinegar)
Grape leaves
Greens
beet
collard
dandelion
kale
mustard
turnip
Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes)
Jicama
Kohlrabi
Leeks, cooked
Lentils, cooked
Lettuce, any type
Malanga
Okra, cooked or uncooked
Onion
Parsnips
Peas
Pepper, any type
Pimientos, canned
Potatoes
Potatoes O’Brien, frozen
Potatoes, new, cooked
Potatoes, sweet
Potatoes, white or red
Pumpkin
Radicchio, uncooked
Radishes
Rhubarb, cooked or uncooked
Rutabaga, cooked or uncooked
Salad
Salsa
Sauce, tomato, canned
Scallions
Spinach, cooked or uncooked
Sprouts
Squash
Squash leaves
Stir-fried vegetables, without sauce
Taro, cooked
Taro leaves, cooked
Tomato paste
Tomato puree, canned
Tomatoes
Turnips, cooked or uncooked
Yam
Zucchini, cooked

Good Health Guidelines:
Improving your health is an important goal of the Weight Watchers Plan. That’s why they suggest you build your meals with Power Foods, and to follow the Good Health Guidelines. They help you lose weight, and provide the nutrition you need while you’re doing it.