Burning foods to measure calories

How many calories are in a handfull of toasted oats or cheese balls? We get a general idea by just burning them and observing the size of the flame that is generated.
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[@Mojozozo644]

Well that's one way to burn calories

[@screenflicker1]

gave me a chuckle

[@SiikPros]

-____________________- ha!

[@mientusmien7594]

your body does pretty much the same thing its called burning for a reason

[@StarzzDrak]

lemme just measure how many calories i have

[@bryannenm6937]

StarzzDrak i’ll just burn myself real quick

[@StarzzDrak]

@@bryannenm6937 behind the joke

[@Asstronut]

No man there's so much to live for :(

[@DisturbedVette]

bruh

[@nathanwessel1819]

@asstronut you sure? lol

[@fougolden722]

lol the toasted oats are now very toasted

[@onebadunixninja]

Now I know exactly what happens to cheese puffs once they reach my stomach, I'll feel better eating the whole bag.

[@OswaldDigestiveClinic]

LOL!

[@karentylee4672]

I'm definitely trying this at home

[@alaads5944]

You can never tell if a karen is joking or not

[@JV-dj9in]

Who asked?

[@zayarummm]

I wonder how many kids tried to set fire to their food after this.

[@christinacao3415]

+zayarummm we did this in science! YASSS

[@jeremiahcastro9700]

So where were the measurements exactly?

[@razielsenketsu]

It would be impossible to measure without a calorimeter. Which is a sealed system that heats the water around it to calculate calories through the temperature change of the water. He said this is a very unscientific way of measuring calories. His point was just to show that cheese puffs are more calorically dense by showing they burn brighter and hotter.

[@signalfire6691]

The thing is, I don't think calorie contents as stated on food packaging is accurate. They don't take into account that while in the lab, fiber burns up, in your body it's not absorbed and therefore passes out unburned (and probably takes some other stuff with it). Even fat isn't completely absorbed by the body and therefore the calorie count for say, a T. of butter, isn't exact. A lot depends on the cooking process as well as your digestive system.

[@IMR95]

As I understand it, it's about how much energy the food is fueling that fire. Obviously, the human body is not fire, but it does need energy and these foods have energy to.provide for us.

[@nicholascanada3123]

Calories are BS with the body one of my favorite videos is a physicist completely dismantling it😅

[@Ojthemighty]

Wrong. Ur body makes use of every single calorie. Ur body is a survival machine. You dont use it its stores as fat. Nothing goes to waste.

[@ElChronicler]

Not sure what you are trying to argue here, but the purpose of using combustion is to determine the potential energy stored in food. They never argued that this is how food is actually digested. We need food to generate ATP, the food we eat provides us with the ability to create ATP, and therefore some foods provide us with more energy than others. Even though our body uses different mechanisms for releasing the energy stored in food, burning the food reveals the amount of energy stored.

[@franciscomunozcortes3931]

This method is used to determine the calories in food, and then print the number on a label. Today, people really think that calories are the energy used by their bodies. So, don't you see the argue make sense?

[@joeyzuber117]

So this is something I've tried to read about and wondered about and all it took was a cool program on a local TV station to show me in an easy to understand way!

[@applemauzel]

0:53 The girl totally thinks "this is why you are still single".

[@turkeytime3309]

lmao

[@xvzf115]

He fugged her after the show ;-)

[@antiquetoy]

@@xvzf115 "you know what's another good way of burning calories?"

[@Social_Brat]

How do you measure the so call calories?

[@creativeman871]

how many calories or joules in one liter of diesel ,please tell as accurate as possible

[@y_p7]

what about wet food like fruits and fish they won't burn!

[@saulo4589]

I think they desidrate bedorr

[@ajv336]

I'm assuming they do the test on their dehydrated counterparts

[@OswaldDigestiveClinic]

They are dehydrated first - good thinking!

[@alexlawson23]

That was a bad message lol. Toasted oats have just as many or more calories than most brands of cheese puffs per g and if you get the brands with added sugar and/or nuts, you're definitely going to consume more calories in an average bowl of toasted oats with milk than an average bowl of chips. That said, moderation is key.

[@BEASTIES50]

Title needs to be changed to burning food for no apparent reason. No calries were measured there, so,what was the point?

[@tjellis1479]

HEAT energy....nothing more. Calories do not exist....they are a measurement outside the body.

[@losebellyfatfast1475]

awesome video. Great work. learnt a lot from this video.

[@lenny_0323]

Why would you want to? For fun? Because if you really want to know what the calories of the fruit are, it's all online already.

[@creativeman871]

if we use HCL as in our stomach ,then how we calculated it ,didn't you think that one liter petrol can be used as calorie unit for overweight peoples

[@KaushalGrover]

Someone please tell me how to measure the heat energy produced from the fire I am doing an experiment in which i burn sucrose just like this I have to measure the total heat energy produced by the combustion of sucrose Plzzz reply

[@popopopo9947]

you know.. theres this new technology.. maybe you ever heard of it... its called THERMOMETER! then the degree of heat caused be converted to kalori.

[@RyanDB]

I know that it's probably too late for this to be helpful, but what you do is burn the sucrose and use the flame to heat a known volume of water. You can take the difference in temperature before and after to figure out the energy absorbed by the water using the following equation: E=dT*m*c (E=energy, dT=change in temp., m=mass of water, and c=the specific heat capacity of water (4.186 J g-1 K-1))

[@bugaboo9442]

not a good representation since we don't burn stuff everyday in pure oxygen

[@newhorizon1521]

I am wanting for more interesting experiments .

[@noahnkr1023]

fascinating, science, chemistry, and math is everywhere!

[@zysupra2682]

where is the math? sit down

[@theepicmemes9891]

SO.... Where is the measured values??? Not related to your title!!

[@alejandromoran4590]

this is not accurate, because you are burning (and counting) many components, like fiber, which are not digested in the human body

[@darkgaito8916]

Oo yea I agree you really do got a point there

[@KillerHornetK94]

Our stomach is not a flame oven. It is a stomach. Formula for respiration (what we do with food) : Glucose + Oxygen = Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy Formula for combustion: Hydrocarbon + Oxygen x2 = Carbond Dioxide + Waterx2 + Energy First distinction: A typical carbohydrate (HYDRATE) contains carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. Where as any hydrocarbon does not have oxygen. Then of course you have all the hormones and other chemicals in us, which are not used in the video.

[@fratermunky4336]

It just occured to me. They test the amount of calories in something by literally burning it with fire and reading the thermal energy it gives off.. But our bodies don't burn calorie with fire, they burn calories through complicated chemical reactions.. So i guess the question is.. The thermal energy given off from burning calories with fire is equal to the chemical energy given off through metabolism? For some reason my "Bullshitometer" is going off.

[@leghole5961]

Never trusted the calorie reading.

[@LogansRun314]

You and me both. I'm calling bullshit.

[@D3vilMayCry99]

Replying just in case someone can argue this

[@kittenluvzu]

I also believe calories are measured by raising the temp of one liter of water one deg Celsius. Not settling food afire.

[@razielsenketsu]

Energy is the ability to do work. Energy cannot be created or destroyed it can only be converted. I think heat is the most common form of energy exchange. That is why in an engine most of the energy is going into heating the engine. A smaller percentage is generating electricity. It's very inefficient if you think about it but it's the best thing we got. In an ideal world or ideal engineering i guess, the engine would never heat up because all the energy would actually go into powering the car. Million years of trial and error through evolution living organisms just found a more efficient way of doing it. Calories are not only a measurement for food but anything that burns.

[@ayupflo]

I did this 4 years ago but we used a Bunsen Burner because our teacher didn't trust us lmao

[@willofdodge1]

What if they used non calories sweetner

[@domenickelly9297]

don't try this at home unless you're absolutely twisted in the head

[@domenickelly9297]

lets go

[@domenickelly9297]

no cap

[@domenickelly9297]

on god

[@Mercenary1926]

I am eating enough to burn my whole street

[@OswaldDigestiveClinic]

LOL!

[@eccentricexploringape1246]

Richard dreyfuss?

[@AmourLiberteErotisme]

What can i do to measure calories of fruit?

[@midoriidrisable]

I love snacks

[@cheshirepat30]

We burn witches with cheese puffs

[@bg6g6]

fantatic item to bring to classes. Thanks

[@oliviadell5796]

defiantly trying this

[@warrensmith9154]

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[@MrDremmetbrown]

why do news reports have to add a joke t everything & make it corny...

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I love this video! I shredded my extra weight by changing ingredients in my cooking. Its fact that if you take in more calories than you burn off during the day you will gain weight! I discovered a lot of my recipe ideas from *Fionas fat free family feasts* - Swapping calorie dense food for nutrient dense ingredients is the *ONLY way* to keep the weight off! Just google it

[@nadiamarmach]

What a shocker! How can someone make this has anything of relevance to ... anything ...

[@zeemelon4202]

But what about Dave!!?

[@janesartwell2243]

My engine is gonna need this to combist

[@jrgraymondss]

He burned it

[@vinukapandithasekera1991]

I hate this. The poor food ):

[@slm3286]

I am so sad cause I cant go on mic

[@vinukapandithasekera1991]

Think about the children in Africa.

[@jliz6435]

What a waste of cheese puffs 😔

[@TeaWithSin]

0:53 LeTs JuSt PoInT tHe BuRnY fLaMe ToWaRdS hEr, ShE'lL bE fInE...

[@nintendo2000]

is anyone else here because of hank green

[@JV-dj9in]

Wicked.

[@alicesunners]

I'm watching this right now

[@alicesunners]

Anyone else?

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[@nateengland4695]

Stupid, stupid, stupid! Our bodies do not burn our calories by throwing whatever food into our cells and then bam burn them. In fact, our body will mostly burn carbs first and fats second and protein if we don't eat for several hours. So, a calorie is not a calorie. In fact, if we eat to many carbs at one meal, our bodies will turn the extra calories into fat to keep our blood sugar normal. Our bodies want to keep our blood sugar in the normal range because high blood sugar is so damaging to all organs. Just ask any diabetic about all of the diseases caused by their high blood sugar. From biological beings, a calorie is not a calorie, period.

[@tiffanyjoyxP]

Anyone here because of hank green tiktok video about why it’s called calories 😎

[@ZahraJibril]

lol burn calories hack

[@LordLorenzo834]

She laughs funny

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dafuq.

[@karentylee4672]

Deez nuts

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[@ZahraJibril]

lol burn calories hack