Obviously a good joke, and of course obligatory cal/kcal discrepancy here. This just seems like a good place to put this info:
Calories on labels are for calories absorbed, not for calories in the food (same with the 4/9/4 rule). So it’d be much less for gasoline, if it were possible to label with nutritional info.
Obviously a good joke, and of course obligatory cal/kcal discrepancy here. This just seems like a good place to put this info:
Calories on labels are for calories absorbed, not for calories in the food (same with the 4/9/4 rule). So it’d be much less for gasoline, if it were possible to label with nutritional info.
As far as I know calories are measured with a Bomb calorimeter meaning you are wrong.
I was pretty sure of this too, and someone who used to work for the FDA told me it was calculated not measured 99% of the time
Here’s a good video with some supporting evidence. I’ve looked it up for a couple foods; calculated calories on em
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UuN5HXctmYk