Meet the WeightWatchers® ZeroPoint™ foods list | WW USA (2024)

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What are the zero point foods in Weight Watchers? ›

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For potatoes, specific kinds and forms of potatoes are "free" so long as they're cooked without fat. Weight Watchers specifically mentions these forms: baby, baked, fingerling, frozen, Idaho, new, oven-roasted wedges, mashed, purple, red, white, yellow and Yukon gold.

Spaghetti squash with marinara sauce from Once Upon a Chef is a 0 WW point that is very healthy for vegetarians. It contains low carb, and low calories when roasted, you can serve it as a main dish or side dish either way works fine.

Yes! 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.

Plain oats—no matter the type—are a ZeroPoint food. Are oats a ZeroPoint food if I process them into flour? Unfortunately not. Breakfast grains ground to a flour-like consistency (such as oats ground into oat flour) is not considered ZeroPoints since flour is not a ZeroPoint food.

Yep, canned salmon, canned tuna, canned sardines—any canned fish packed in water (not oil) is a ZeroPoint food.

Air-fried popcorn is zero points in Weight Watchers!

Everyone is given a list of zero point foods. 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.

Is avocado a zero point food? ›

That means if you previously had brown rice, or avocado, or wheat pasta, or potatoes as ZeroPoints, those will no longer be zero. That doesn't mean you can't eat them anymore (you can use your Points allowance however you like!), but you will have to count points for them.

Yoghurt and cottage cheese (specifically plain, 99% fat-freet varieties) have made it onto the list of ZeroPoint food groups because they are nutrient-dense, packed with protein, and great sources of calcium and vitamin D, two key nutrients that are important for bone health.

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.