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1 cup of black coffee has <5 cals according to the internet, not 0. it's basically 0 but i think it's important to be precise when it comes to diet.
by bluntfang 7y ago
1 cup of black coffee has <5 cals according to the internet, not 0. it's basically 0 but i think it's important to be precise when it comes to diet.
- airstrike 7y ago5 cals can really be rounded down to zero. It's important to also focus on the big picture.
- rsync 7y agoNo, actually if one is making a decision whether or not to drink black coffee while fasting, it is interesting and actionable data. I do in fact drink black coffee in a fasted state and if it had 5 calories (which I don't believe it does) I would choose not to ...
- airstrike 7y ago5 calories will not take your body out of its fasting state... unless you're being religious about it
- primroot 7y agoThis makes me think of premature optimization. There is such thing as energy homeostasis in biology. Most things about diet are going to be imprecise, and the target system is adapted to imprecision.
- Someone1234 7y agoMost sources list it as 0 or 1 calories. Additionally considering that caffeine may increase your RMR ("Resting Metabolic Rate") by 3% or more[0][1], if you want to be "precise" it may be more accurate to say that black coffee contains negative calories. So how precise do you need it to be? 0, 1, <5, or -1, -5 calories? Or is this just pedantic nitpicking? [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7486839 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7486839 [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2912010 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2912010
- bluntfang 7y ago>it may be more accurate to say that black coffee contains negative calories. Calorie has a pretty specific definition. What makes you feel like the scientific definition doesn't work for you?
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