When you cook, you have the ingredients that you use, and each of those has a certain amount of calories. When you mix them together and cook them, does the calorie count change as they are getting cooked?
Does the law of conservation of energy apply to calories? Where they can’t be destroyed or created, only transferred?
Am I overthinking this?
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Cooking food can make calories more available. Some things are harder to chew or digest, when something is hard to chew or digest you will get less than 100% of the calories that food contained (realistically you never get 100% of anything anyway)
Some foods, cooking makes it much easier for your body to get the nutients out of the food
However, if you burn food, you can certainly destroy calories- if you burn sugar in the frying pan you are burning calories… As for conservation of energy, if you burn the sugar on the stove you will release energy in the form of heat, and reduce the sugar to carbon, water, oxygen etc
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