Fresh fruit is not very high in calories (except bananas i guess). What happens on a chemical level when you dry fruit? Why are calories increasing? Why isn’t calorie level the same when all you do is let water evaporate?
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If you take a piece of fruit and dry it, it is not gaining any calories.
1lb of dried fruit has more calories than 1lb of fresh fruit because you have removed a bunch of calorie-less water from the fruit. But you also have more fruit in that 1lb than you do in your 1lb of fresh fruit. For example, a pound of apples might be three apples but a pound of dried apples might have 9 apples in it. So you’ve just increased the calories in a pound by 3x.
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