Question about candy

silvermist18903
silvermist18903 Posts: 27 Member
in Food and Nutrition
If I suck on pieces of candy, but don't swallow or chew them, am I still absorbing calories?

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  • JossFit
    JossFit Posts: 588 Member
    Your body starts absorbing calories in your mouth... so yes.
  • charovnitza
    charovnitza Posts: 689
    Pure sugar disolving in your mouth...oh yeah, you're absorbing calories!
  • silvermist18903
    silvermist18903 Posts: 27 Member
    Crap. Okay, thanks everyone!
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    Your body starts absorbing calories in your mouth... so yes.
    Lol wut?

    No. The amylase in your saliva starts breaking down carbs/sugar but nutrient absorption occurs in the small intestine.

    Lol do you even science?
  • avababy05
    avababy05 Posts: 930 Member
    just swallow it.It's one piece of candy
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    just swallow it.It's once piece of candy
    OP didn't specify the quantity she planned on consuming or had consumed. Maybe she meant 100 jolly ranchers, we don't know.
  • avababy05
    avababy05 Posts: 930 Member
    just swallow it.It's once piece of candy
    OP didn't specify the quantity she planned on consuming or had consumed. Maybe she meant 100 jolly ranchers, we don't know.

    True.
  • victoriannsays
    victoriannsays Posts: 568 Member
    if you swallow it, your body will digest it.

    I prefer to just eat the candy. give it a try
  • missylee117
    missylee117 Posts: 66 Member
    GUM HAS CALORIES SO I WOULD THINK YES
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  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    GUM HAS CALORIES SO I WOULD THINK YES
    This is assuming you swallow your saliva.

    Side note: Typing in all caps is considered yelling which is rude.
  • twinketta
    twinketta Posts: 2,130 Member
    If I suck on pieces of candy, but don't swallow or chew them, am I still absorbing calories?

    Vanishment left your friends list 9 days ago and queen of boredom eats around 400 cals a day?I would not worry about the candy, these are just a couple that you have on your friends list that seem to undereat?

    What I think, just in my opinion, is to add some friends that eat healthy?

    It may help you to live healthy too x
  • CLFrancois
    CLFrancois Posts: 472 Member
    I had a cinnamon disc yesterday and logged it. 23 calories.

    Sometimes eating one piece of candy can stop you from eating an entire bag of chips.

    And yeah,
    queen of boredom eats around 400 cals a day?I
    wth? a goal of 600 a day is not healthy, no matter how you look at it.
  • avababy05
    avababy05 Posts: 930 Member
    :laugh:
    just swallow it.

    I like how you think.

    We could be friends. :heart:
  • alexapatel
    alexapatel Posts: 87 Member
    Sucking on pure sugar is bad for your teeth :/ but yes digestion starts in your mouth!
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Just eat the candy.
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
    The only thing I know about candy is that the best candy comes from a van.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    The only thing I know about candy is that the best candy comes from a van.

    With a stranger driving that van. Delicious!
  • Gin66
    Gin66 Posts: 47 Member
    try sugar free hard candies
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    The only thing I know about candy is that the best candy comes from a van.

    With a stranger driving that van. Delicious!

    Get in the van. I'll shut the door for you!
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    The only thing I know about candy is that the best candy comes from a van.

    With a stranger driving that van. Delicious!

    Get in the van. I'll shut the door for you!

    EVERYBODY!! INTO THE CANDY VAN!!!
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    The only thing I know about candy is that the best candy comes from a van.

    With a stranger driving that van. Delicious!

    Get in the van. I'll shut the door for you!

    EVERYBODY!! INTO THE CANDY VAN!!!
    I'll take you all to candy mountain!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    Of course you're swallowing it. You're sucking on it right? You have saliva in your mouth. The candy disolves. The disolved candy mixes with your saliva. You swallow your saliva every few seconds. Unless you're spitting constantly, you're swallowing the candy. It doesn't matter if you chew it or suck it (shhhhhh, we're talking about candy!!!). If it's in your mouth and you swallow, you are consuming it.
  • BunkyBumBum
    BunkyBumBum Posts: 157 Member
    It would be fabulous if it worked that way, I'd suck all my food, haha!

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