A lettuce smoothie is not the same thing as eating lettuce. By turning it into a smoothie, you increase the calorie density and make it much easier to consume a higher quantity faster. That is likely enough to turn it into a higher calorie food.
Take a cardboard box and grind it into powder, and tell me which one takes up less space. Of course anything blended is going to be more calorie dense.
zeroConnection@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
There are about 150 kcal in a litre of lettuce smoothie
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How many calories would it take to digest a litre of lettuce?
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
A lettuce smoothie is not the same thing as eating lettuce. By turning it into a smoothie, you increase the calorie density and make it much easier to consume a higher quantity faster. That is likely enough to turn it into a higher calorie food.
zeroConnection@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Not really, the calorie density is exactly the same per kilo. It’s just easier and quicker to consume a smoothie than chew through a kilo of lettuce.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Take a cardboard box and grind it into powder, and tell me which one takes up less space. Of course anything blended is going to be more calorie dense.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m guessing it must be easier for the intestines to digest it if it’s blent into tiny pieces too.