eli5: why is potato chips so high in calories but potatoes are relatively low?
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Life Pro Tip: get in the habit of reading the ingredients and nutrition information on foods that you buy.
(If you buy foods without nutrition labels, you can always find info about similar products online.)
The label on a bag of potato chips, for example, will tell you that nearly all the calories come from the fat they are fried in, and also that a small serving will give you most of the salt that it’s healthy to eat in a day.
(Potato chips are delicious, of course, because we evolved in an environment where both calories and salt were hard to get, so we needed to consume them when available.)
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