Well this is something that has never come up for me before in all these years…
Let’s say there is hypothetical FoodX. Some kind of animal flesh.
Let’s say Foodx, for the given weight, has 80g protein and 100g fat and 0g carbs.
I understand these are rounded approximates. But:
1. Should said Foodx WEIGH 180 grams?
Here is why this has come up.
I made chili, modifying a recipe posted here, and because both my meat grinds had more fat than I wanted, and because the recipe said to do it anyway, I browned the meat and then I drained the fat off.
Then I weighed the fat I drained off.
It weighs more grams than the entire fat grams in all the meat combined.
OK I tell myself, maybe it also released water or something. But how the hell could I measure something like that.
So I want to deduct the 430g that I poured off my meats (which, combined, have 362.81g of fat, which is too big a % difference to feel like this is just trivia) but now I have no idea what to do here.
Assume some % of it was fat and the rest was… water? Not to be picky but if it’s fat that’s 3,870 calories which is a damn big deal if you’re tracking macros.
Then I started wondering if maybe grams in macronutrients did not actually equal grams in weight, and maybe that’s where I was going wrong. I admit I never tried to correlate those two numbers before.
As an end run around the blackbox of what was water and what was fat, does anybody know if, once you brown meat and strain off the fat, about how much % of the fat is likely left? I could estimate based on that, instead.
