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    Default What does 120 Calories look like?

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    Interesting.

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    cool thanks for the link

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    Default Re: What does 120 Calories look like?

    That's interesting. Mango juice is so thick and sweet - I thought that would be more than apple juice.

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    thanks risker
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    Default Re: What does 120 Calories look like?

    that cheese looks like there is waaaaaay more than 120 calories

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    I totally agree about the cheese. I also have a hard time believing that one slice of pizza, even a small thin one like in the picture and a jelly donut are only 120 calories.

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    Default Re: What does 120 Calories look like?

    Aren't a lot of really high fat foods (like cheese) pretty low in calories and it's their calorie to fat ratio that makes them so unhealthy?

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    Default Re: What does 120 Calories look like?

    Not usually because fat is 9kcals/gram while protein and carbs are 4kcals/gram. So a high fat food is also going to be high calorie!

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    Default Re: What does 120 Calories look like?

    I'm pretty confident the pics shown are accurate, there's no reason for them to be wrong

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    Quote Fuhzy View Post
    Not usually because fat is 9kcals/gram while protein and carbs are 4kcals/gram. So a high fat food is also going to be high calorie!
    The exception is if it also contains a large amount of water. The reason why dairy cheese, which is not really a food, is not particularly high in calories is that it is about 40% water.


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    I'm pretty confident the pics shown are accurate, there's no reason for them to be wrong
    Any source that says "calories" with a small "c" when referring to a specific number of food Calories (kilocalories) is questionable. The cheese in the picture definitely looks like more than 30 grams.

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    Quote steven1222 View Post
    Any source that says "calories" with a small "c" when referring to a specific number of food Calories (kilocalories) is questionable. The cheese in the picture definitely looks like more than 30 grams.
    A minor error, I would say that the NHS was a very reliable source of information. It probably only looks more than 30g because it's stacked up, it doesn't look more than 30g to me btw.

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    I'll take the strawberries!

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