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finding them calories how it all works.
Know this:
1g of carbohydrates = 4 calories
1g of protein = 4 calories
1g fat = 9 calories
if you don’t know this already go grab something from your fridge and check out the label. Thats how you find out how many calories are in something. Don’t just look and see oh cool 500 calories, cause all those calories could be coming from fat.
Example!
My yogurt has 100 calories
19g carbs X 4 = 76 calories
5g protein X 4 = 20 calories
0g fat x 9 = 0
add those up and you got 96 calories. I know right wtf the label says 100!
This is because of label laws on fat content. As long as something is lower then .5g then it can be rounded down not up... HA HA bet people did not know this little fact. In fact companies use the hell out of this little trick. ALL fats are rounded down to the nearest .5g
here read it for yourself
Nutrition facts label - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Products containing less than 5 g of fat show amounts rounded to the nearest 0.5 g. Amounts less than 0.5 g are rounded to 0 g. For example, if a product contains 0.45 g of trans fat per serving, and the package contains 18 servings, the label would show 0 g of trans fat, even though the product actually contains a total of 8.1 g of trans fat.
Ain't that real nice of them. So when you see that 4 extra cals you can not account for. Well more then likely its FAT cals.
check your label and the math works out. You are missing 4 cals. A gram of fat is 9 cals .45g fat is about 4 cals. HMMMM sneaky ain't they...
Anyone into fitness should do a lot of reading and research on label laws and should know where everything is coming from.
Know this:
1g of carbohydrates = 4 calories
1g of protein = 4 calories
1g fat = 9 calories
if you don’t know this already go grab something from your fridge and check out the label. Thats how you find out how many calories are in something. Don’t just look and see oh cool 500 calories, cause all those calories could be coming from fat.
Example!
My yogurt has 100 calories
19g carbs X 4 = 76 calories
5g protein X 4 = 20 calories
0g fat x 9 = 0
add those up and you got 96 calories. I know right wtf the label says 100!
This is because of label laws on fat content. As long as something is lower then .5g then it can be rounded down not up... HA HA bet people did not know this little fact. In fact companies use the hell out of this little trick. ALL fats are rounded down to the nearest .5g
here read it for yourself
Nutrition facts label - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Products containing less than 5 g of fat show amounts rounded to the nearest 0.5 g. Amounts less than 0.5 g are rounded to 0 g. For example, if a product contains 0.45 g of trans fat per serving, and the package contains 18 servings, the label would show 0 g of trans fat, even though the product actually contains a total of 8.1 g of trans fat.
Ain't that real nice of them. So when you see that 4 extra cals you can not account for. Well more then likely its FAT cals.
check your label and the math works out. You are missing 4 cals. A gram of fat is 9 cals .45g fat is about 4 cals. HMMMM sneaky ain't they...
Anyone into fitness should do a lot of reading and research on label laws and should know where everything is coming from.
