We set out to help athletes answer the common questions about calories and how the body processes different types of calories from food. The prevalent idea is that an excess intake of calories, meaning consuming more calories than you burn on average, leads to an increase in body fat. This logic is flawed. Calories are a unit of energy and not a nutrient, they have no physical form unlike, for example, fat which is essentially a long string of carbons with hydrogens attached to them.
So why squash?? Aside from being chock full of vitamins C, A, B6, and K, among others, its incredibly low cal and low carb. A one cup has 42 calories and 10 grams of carbs, yet it suplies plenty of fiber.