We had talked in detail about “empty calories” and 10 Ways to Cut Hundreds of Empty Calories Through The Day previously in a post. These empty calories can hamper your weight loss efforts, and to counter that, one should include nutrient-dense foods that have loads of vitamins, protein, minerals and other essential nutrients capsuled in fewer calories. People who want to lose weight and get healthy in general should avoid calories that come in the form of transfat, saturated fat, high sodium, and added sugar. The idea behind including nutrient-dense food in the daily diet is to get maximum amount of nutrients for the calories consumed because they are amazing for overall health as well. To begin with, most nutrient-rich foods can have vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, phytochemicals, antioxidants, etc., and they would be low in sugar, starch, and unhealthy fats. For example, a cup of white rice would have approximately 242 calories (most of them carbs) and the same quantity of brown rice would provide 216 calories (most of which would be complex carbs, magnesium, manganese, potassium, selenium, protein, and fiber!) When you are on a calorie deficit diet to lose weight, it makes sense to spend your precious calories on nutrient-dense foods. In this post, we list down 21 most nutrient dense foods to accelerate weight loss.