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ELI5: If I cook a 300 calorie meal in a frying pan with a quarter cup of butter (about 400 calories) am I actually ingesting 700 calories? (lemmit.online)

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/DeanOMiite on 2023-10-01 13:56:27.

I love shrimp, for example, and it's low calorie. But, I cook shrimp with butter. Curious to know how many calories I'm adding when I do this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The way I think about this is that you need to ask whether you do this consistently. The app I use, IIRC says that it is accurate with 30% margin for error. Whether you consistently cook shrimp or other things in butter and count it, or don't count it, or count part of it, is less important than being consistent.

At least with the app I use, if you screw up your inputs, the app will correct against the user's error and make the overall calorie count lower to accomodate.