• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    As far as I know calories are measured with a Bomb calorimeter meaning you are wrong.

    • frank@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      I was pretty sure of this too, and someone who used to work for the FDA told me it was calculated not measured 99% of the time

      Here’s a good video with some supporting evidence. I’ve looked it up for a couple foods; calculated calories on em

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UuN5HXctmYk