How is this possible??!
Question: ex: one can of red bull has 110 calories according to this site:
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/nutrition-...
but when i added them up myself i got:
*4 cals per carb and sugar*
28g carbs = 28x4= 112
27g sugar = 27x4= 108
and 0 fats
calories = 220
is this wrong?
Answers: ex: one can of red bull has 110 calories according to this site:
http://www.dietfacts.com/html/nutrition-...
but when i added them up myself i got:
*4 cals per carb and sugar*
28g carbs = 28x4= 112
27g sugar = 27x4= 108
and 0 fats
calories = 220
is this wrong?
I dont think you are supposed to add these, cause sugars are carbs:
28g carbs = 28x4= 112
27g sugar = 27x4= 108
and 0 fats
I think that you either calculate the calories of one or the other. You have to remember that the nutritional info on foods is usually an estimate. They probably had 112 and 108 as results and averaged them to get the 110 calories that they wrote on the label.
sugars are carbohydrates, so you are essentially counting them twice
Maybe it's because you're counting them twice.
Sugars are carbs hence the 4 cals per carb means you've got 28g carbs of which 27g are sugar. This means you have 1g of carbs in there that aren't from sugar.
So 27 * 4 = 108. Plus carbs from something other than sugar = 110 calories.
Q.E.D.