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Is it safe to say that taking an apple and manipulating it without adding anything to it could never INCREASE the calories available? So is the reason that the
by cabaalis 6y ago
Is it safe to say that taking an apple and manipulating it without adding anything to it could never INCREASE the calories available?
So is the reason that the calorie content in the apple changes in blending due to how difficult (or not difficult) it is to digest?
- war1025 6y ago> could never INCREASE the calories available? It wouldn't add calories, but it would make more calories available in the sense that your body is able to extract them. For instance, cooking food makes more calories bio-available.
- kortilla 6y agoNo, blending it increases the calories available to easily absorb. This is partly why juicers are unhealthy.
- nkrisc 6y agoBasically. It's similar to how we typically process meat without adding anything to it before eating it, to make it easier to digest and to increase the available calories. The way we process it is by cooking it.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoWhat do you mean by "available"? Fire was an important technology because it allows us to predigest food, getting more out of eating the same amount of stuff. This certainly does increase the calories available in the ordinary usage of the phrase -- but so does the blender example.
- Scoundreller 6y agoA blender is a bunch of knives. Just something else enabled by fire.