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Nutrition & Health
Why Calorie Counting Misses Almost Everything Important About Nutrition
Fact 1 of 274%
Raw almonds provide 30 percent fewer calories than current labels claim.
A handful of raw almonds contains hidden digestive complexity.
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Standard food labels use the Atwater system which ignores how much energy is lost during digestion. Research shows that because almond cell walls are tough, humans excrete much of the fat rather than absorbing it.
"Labels overestimate almond calories by roughly 32 percent."
This discrepancy proves that the calorie math on your snack pack is a mathematical ghost.
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