eli5 if something has 7% of alcohol and you drink 2 bottles of it,you don’t consume 14% of alcohol. but if a cookie has 100 calories and you eat two,you consume 200 calories. why?

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eli5 if something has 7% of alcohol and you drink 2 bottles of it,you don’t consume 14% of alcohol. but if a cookie has 100 calories and you eat two,you consume 200 calories. why?

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Calories are an absolute, percentages stay consistent. You’ve consumed twice as many calories from alcohol if you drink two bottles, but the ratio of alcohol to water and other things is the same and doubles as well.