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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Alcohol percentage is a ratio describing how much alcohol is in the drink. That doesn’t change no matter how much of it you drink.

Calorie content is an absolute value which does increase if you eat more.