Group: Specific Diets & Nutrition

Specific Diets & Nutrition
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fat grams vs real grams

frnortnr
frnortnr
Posts: 8
Joined: 2003/02/09
Canada
2004/04/12, 07:04 PM
Here's something that's puzzled me for a while. How can something like, say a tablespoon of olive oil have 13 grams of fat, when there's no way it actually even weighs anywhere near that much?
Thanks,
jon a

fsdsk
fsdsk
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Joined: 2003/11/30
United States
2004/04/12, 08:57 PM
Volume and weight are two different things.
Remember the joke, which weighs more a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?

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erirvine
erirvine
Posts: 196
Joined: 2002/11/20
United Kingdom
2004/04/14, 10:01 AM
1 tablespoon = 15ml,

Oil’s are less dense than water (why they float) and 15ml of water weighs 15g so 1 tablespoon having 13g of fat seems reasonable to me...
frnortnr
frnortnr
Posts: 8
Joined: 2003/02/09
Canada
2004/04/14, 04:55 PM
Of course! It does make sense...
Thanks,
jon a