What is the caloric composition of food?
Caloric value of food is based on the caloric value of its constituents – protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Protein has 4 calories per gram, carbohydrates also have 4 calories per gram, and fat has 9 calories per gram. Pure alcohol has 7 calories per gram. Because of its high caloric value, most focus has been rightly so on fat for reducing body weight. However, it has led people to believe that carbohydrates are rather benign when it comes to fight against body weight. Since our body converts excess carbohydrates quickly into fat, we need to watch our carbohydrates intake with extreme care – i.e. we need to CarboWatch our diet. Micronutrients are in such small quantity that their caloric value in food may be safely ignored. Foods Nutrition Chart Sorted By Food Name (pdf file) Food Nutrition Chart Sorted by Carbohydrate Contents (pdf file) Nutrion Chart – Some Indian Foods (pdf file) Note: To view the charts you will need Acrobat Reader® which can be downloaded free of cost from the fol
