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Some completely arbitrary choices for comparison that may or may not be representative: 90% Lean Beef: 798 calories per pound 80% Lean Beef: 1152 calories per
by plorkyeran 12y ago
Some completely arbitrary choices for comparison that may or may not be representative:
90% Lean Beef: 798 calories per pound
80% Lean Beef: 1152 calories per pound
Carrots: 186 calories per pound
Potatoes: 354 calories per pound
Using GP's numbers for gallons/pound:
90% Lean Beef: .994 calories per gallon
80% Lean Beef: 1.435 calories per gallon
Carrots: .990 calories per gallon
Potatoes: 1.883 calories per gallon
Much closer than I was expecting. I was also not expecting numbers on the order of magnitude of one calorie per gallon...
- saalweachter 12y ago"Vegetables" are the wrong thing too look at. Soybeans have about 2000 calories / lb, based on the number Google gives me of 446 calories / 100g. A random website claims soybeans take 200 gallons of water to produce 1 lb, which comes out to about 10 calories / gallon. That said, you can make huge gains just by switching from beef to pork or chicken. Pork uses about half the resources of beef, per pound, and chicken about a third. Eat your beefs for special occasions, eat chicken and pork if you want every-day meats.