Yes, it works with counting calories. But there are a lot of edge cases where the caloric value doesn’t represent the amount of energy your body can take out of

Yes, it works with counting calories. But there are a lot of edge cases where the caloric value doesn’t represent the amount of energy your body can take out of the food. Also basically all values printed on the boxes are very vague as nobody does own measurements but relies on previous measurements instead. Here’s a nice article summing up the issues with counting calories: https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv7d78/weve-been-counting-calories-all-wrong https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv7d78/weve-been-counting-ca...