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>The pseudoscience they use to determine calories is putting food in a calorimeter and burning it and measuring the temperature of the flames created, or something like that. How much energy an apple can give a fire has no bearing on how much energy it will give humans. We are not flame people.
>I can put wood in a fucking calorimeter and measure its calories. But I cannot eat wood.
The label is the energy of the metabolized components of food. Things you can't metabolize, like fibre, are excluded from the calorie count on the label. You eat it, but it goes through without contributing energy to your metabolism. If there was a legal, mass produced food item that had sawdust as an ingredient, the caloric label would exclude the measured energy from the sawdust's combustion. The label lists the energy that goes into your metabolism, not the total energy content of the food.

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ITT: Food trends you hate.For me, its packing ridiculous amounts of fiber into stuff. This is reduced calorie bread. Its got 15 grams of fiber…

ITT: Food trends you hate.
For me, its packing ridiculous amounts of fiber into stuff.
This is reduced calorie bread. Its got 15 grams of fiber…