Do you absorb all the calories you eat? Most almond fat stays locked inside intact cells after chewing, and a diet built to feed gut microbes lowered the energy the body kept
Oct 27
4 min read
Food labels give one fixed calorie figure for each food. What your gut actually keeps is not fixed. How much energy you actually keep from a meal depends on how intact the food's structure is when it reaches your intestine, and on what your gut microbes do with whatever arrives in the colon. Two well-controlled studies show both effects directly, and they help explain why the number on the packet is an estimate rather than a measurement.
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