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humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
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humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 days ago
It’s within a percent.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The main substance that burns but doesn’t necessarily get metabolized is dietary fiber, which is a category of some different polysaccharides that burn but don’t get (fully) digested.
So high fiber foods would tend to give incorrect results in bomb calorimetry.