27-Aug-12 (Created: 27-Aug-12) | More in 'Recipes'

Calorie for calorie we take less from raw almonds

As one may have anticipated, there may be differences in how we digest different types of calories resulting in a net calories being less than what we have evaluated them to be when taking in. Some of the factors appears to be whether they are cooked or not, cell structure of the food (which could get soft and lost during cooking), what kind of microbes are in your gut etc.