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?

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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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>Being much more calorie-dense, the Snickers bar would naturally result in greater weight gain

The weight you gain by eating isn’t based on the weight of the food, but the calorie content. It seems like you get this concept.

The four macro nutrients in food are water, fat, carbs, and protein. However, water doesn’t provide any calories for you to use. If you remove all the water from both foods, the Snickers bar is actually heavier than the cabbage.