….and why don’t spices have any calories? At least, the labels say they have no calories.
This is something I’ve been wondering about for some time now. I’ve noticed that foods that are sweet tend to have more calories than foods that are salty, spicy, savory, or even bitter.
For example, the smallish-medium apples in our refrigerator have about 80 calories each. The bell peppers we have (red, yellow, orange) that are around the same size have about 20-30 calories. A stick of string cheese has about 80 calories, but chocolate of the same amount can easily creep up to 200 calories (depending on the candy).
I even see this with spices and seasonings. A spoonful (kitchen spoons, not measuring spoons or big giant spoons) of sugar has about 15-50 calories (depending on the size of the spoon), but that same spoon filled with salt or parsley might have at the most 10 calories.
Even with fruits. Why does a cucumber have less calories than a tomato, which has less calories than an orange?
If I filled a soup bowl, or any medium sized bowl, with chopped veggies, it would have less calories than if the same bowls were filled with chopped fruit.
Calories are units/measurements of energy (or so I’ve read), but savory foods, or foods without much sugar, are just as energizing as sweet things.
So why do the sweet(er) foods have more calories?
