Adding a teaspoon of powdered ginger to a hot drink with breakfast might help the body burn a little extra calories after eating, compared to just drinking hot water.

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Ginger consumption enhances the thermic effect of food and promotes feelings of satiety without affecting metabolic and hormonal parameters in overweight men: a pilot study.

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2012 Oct

This study found that overweight men burned about 43 extra calories after eating breakfast with ginger powder compared to without it, which means ginger might help the body use a bit more energy after meals.

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Ginger consumption enhances the thermic effect of food and promotes feelings of satiety without affecting metabolic and hormonal parameters in overweight men: a pilot study.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2012.03.016

Similar Assertions

People who ate ginger with their breakfast felt less hungry and thought they could eat less afterward, compared to when they didn’t have ginger.

85%

Oral ingestion of ginger powder (2–3 g) increases 24-hour energy expenditure in humans compared to placebo.

82%

Even though ginger made people burn more calories right after eating, that effect didn’t last long enough to add up to more total calories burned over the whole 6 hours.

80%

One dose of ginger didn’t change blood sugar, insulin, fat levels, or inflammation markers after a meal in overweight men.

73%