Comment on How is it possible that praline pecans have less calories than regular pecans?

Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the “low fat” diet craze. “We replaced all that fat with salt and sugar. Enjoy!”

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the same with the lo-carb fad. No more sugars and starches, here’s a wad of salty fat!

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except the way fat is metabolized is far better for you than what’s been paraded as “healthy”.

      I’d sooner eat a high fat diet than even moderate carb or any kind of low fat diet.

      Got diabetes in the family, I could lecture on how to manage it with diet (Type II), I’ve read so much research over the decades. Fat is crucial for stabilizing blood glucose.

      For an introduction, read “The Zone” by Barry Sears (the 1994 book, nothing else called the Zone, the rest is marketing garbage). It explains (indirectly) why a high fat diet isn’t the Bad Thing we’ve been lead to believe.

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      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fat is crucial definitely. But even more important is fiber.

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      • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So I just want to make clear to everyone who hasn’t read the scientific literature, every empirical claim this ignoramus said is false^

        I don’t know why people treat food as a religion, but it’s really fucking annoying.

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• ericatty@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seconding this. 28g of sugar has 108 calories.

  Which roughly just over half the amount of calories in 28 g of pecans (193 calories)

  So simple math.

  28g sugar + 28g pecans = 108 calories sugar + 193 calories Gives you 301 calories total

  28g sugar times 2 = 216 calories 28g pecans times 2 = 386 calories

  Sugar has significantly less calories per gram than pecans.

  When you go by weight, you can really play with the calorie content by substituting calorie dense food (like fats, nuts, oils, avocado) that has a lot of calories per gram with foods that are the same weight but less calories per gram

  Carbs like sugar have less calories per gram than fats, and salt has 0 calories, but it adds grams of weight

  The pralines are substituting some of the high calorie weight of the pecans for lower calorie sugar and salt. So the weight is the same, but the total ingredients have less calories because of the non-pecan stuff used to top off the weight to get to 28g)

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is why you should never just look at calories.

    600 calories of candy bars and 600 calories of steak looks a lot different. But will weigh about the same. From memory, that will be about 2 and a half Snickers, and one 8 ounce steak.

    Trying to eat 600 calories of healthy green vegetables would see your jaw fall off before you finished chewing. About 6 heads of romaine lettuce to get you that far. Until you add dressing. Which, generally speaking, will have about 120 calories per ounce. A little more than a candy bar.

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