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This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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I'm guessing there's an error somewhere, because this doesn't seem possible.

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[–] 118 points 8 months ago (11 children)

All food oil is 9kcal/g, carbs and protein are 4kcal/g.

The chili oil is mostly oil.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Sure, but this stuff is like triple the density of oil if 4 tsp is 60g

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    60g of oil is 540 kcal-ish. The chili pepper is comparatively calorie free, so yea, 440kcal makes total sense.

    Is it the tsp that's throwing you off? I think there's a typo - 4 tbsp would be about 60g. 4tsp I would expect to be about 20g.

    I way prefer dealing in mass for cooking and baking personally...

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It is broken down into 43g fat, 10g cars and 4g protein. Using another commenter's numbers of 9kcal/g for fat and 4kcal/g for the others gives 443 kcal. So yeah, well within margin.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Dang. Wouldn't have expected that either. Then again, I don't use a ton on food because I don't want things to be sopping in oil.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    4 tablespoons is 2 oz is 60g.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It says teaspoons...

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