Timeline for How do we calculate energy of food?
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| Aug 24, 2019 at 18:43 | comment | added | Mazura | This; you burn it. Which begs the question that's already answered in it: "approximately 15% of the food energy is used by the human body" | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 14:54 | history | edited | Natsfan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2019 at 14:13 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | @kubanczyk I may be wrong on this, but I guess the process described in this answer is used to determine the amount of energy provided by the digestible constituents of food. I.e. run one test for fat, another for the protein mix in meat, another for the protein mix in wheat, another for the starch in potatoes. Then analyse the nutrient mixture of the food in question and add up the respective energy contents. Thus, indigestible parts like fibers are naturally excluded from the calculation. | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 13:18 | comment | added | kubanczyk | Is it a fact? Humans cannot oxidize substantial parts of food, cows some other parts, whereas this method oxidizes everything. The result won't be very relevant for us. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 23:05 | history | answered | Natsfan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |