how a bag of salted cashews and peanuts has more calories than honey coated roasted cashews and peanuts

Question

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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Answer 1

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.