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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How many calories would it take to digest a litre of lettuce?

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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