How can cucumber score 99 / 100 in satiety per calorie (SPC)? Well, it has very extremely few calories. Nobody ever got obese eating cucumber!

But is cucumber a good food for satiety and weight loss? Who feels satiety by eating cucumber? Is that good advice?

In our HAVA app, we have two goals:

1. Get into a good SPC range (individual, higher is more effective, somewhere 50-70 can be a good goal for most people)

2. Get enough protein (we recommend a *minimum* level for you, based on 1.6 grams per kilogram of ideal body weight – more is usually even better)

An average SPC of 99 – like cucumber – is far too high to be sustainable or enjoyable. 

Foods like cucumbers are great but too low in calories to live on. Eat as much cucumber as you like; it helps people lose weight and improve metabolic health, but you'll always need to eat something else, too.

Your average for the day should likely stay in the 50 - 70 range, for a solid weight loss approach that can also be sustainable in the long term. Higher is more effective, according to our data, but going too high (far above 70) is difficult to sustain:Try HAVA yourself, download the app.

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