If I were to eat a thousand Snickers bars, I would put on significantly more weight than if I were to eat a thousand heads of cabbage despite the huge disparity in weight of the pre-consumed food. Where does this mass come from?

Question

Per Google:

A regular Snickers bar is 57 grams, and is good for 280 calories.

An entire head of cabbage is ~714 grams, and is ~176 calories.

Being much more calorie-dense, the Snickers bar would naturally result in greater weight gain. But where does this weight come from when the pre-consumed product is so light? Is the difference just what your body expels through heat/faeces?

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Answer 1

Most of cabbage is cellulose, which we tend to call fibre. Our bodies can’t digest it so it passes through our system and is pooped out.

Chocolate bars are high in sugar and fat, things our bodies absorb very well so, all other things being equal, you retain far more mass from the chocolate bar than from the cabbage.