so i have 1 bag of salted roasted cashes and peanuts – 624 calories per 100g.
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i also have a bag of honey coated & roasted cashews and peanuts – 496 calories per 100g.
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why and how can the honey coated variety have less calories than the salted one? the ratio of cashews and peanuts are roughly the same,
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Honey has fewer calories per 100 g – the figure I’ve found is 304, i.e. roughly twice less than your cashews and peanuts mix. So when you add honey to them the average calories content per 100 g decreases. I would guess from your figures that the honey-coated mix is about 1/3 honey by weight and 2/3 cashews and peanuts.
Does the salted package have oil in the ingredients?
Adding honey/sugar increases amount of carb at 4 calories per gram. Nuts are fat, protein and carbs. Fat has 9 calories for same weight of honey/sugar. As the ratio of fat decreases as more honey/sugar is added, the number calories per 100g decreases
It is also why frosted cornflakes and plain corn flakes have the same amount of calories. The sugar is replacing corn which a carb with hardly any fat. Adding carb to carbs doesn’t change the calories per same weighted amount.
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