Calories: It just doesn't add up!
Once upon a time, I learned that in foods a gram of protein has 4 calories, and a gram of carbohydrate has 4 calories, and a gram of fat has 9 calories. And lo and behold, for a lot of foods I can look at the nutritional info and add them up and get about those totals.
Lately I've been noticing this isn't true, though, and the 'biggest offenders' seem to be in foods that are high in fiber. Now, I don't do low-carb but don't some diets discount fiber in figuring out how many carbs are in something? Does that have something to do with it?
This came up for me today because I bought Thomas' light English muffins. They promise 8 grams of fiber. Too chewy for me, I won't get them again, but the nutrition was what got me. They say they're 100 calories. But they also say they have 1 gram of fat (9 calories), 22 carbs (88 calories), and 7 protein (28 calories). So that adds up to 135 calories, which is substantially more than 100! Well, okay, 35% more than 100, but that definitely adds up.
So what's the deal? Are people computing calories differently lately? Can my calorie-counting self not just go and look at calorie counts anymore?
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