Adding more water = more calories???
eastercat
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If have a cup of soup which says add 300ml = 85kcal if I add more water does that increase the calories?
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no it will only dilute it as water has no calories0
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No, water doesn't add calories. You can add more water to make it thinner or less water to make it thicker and the overall calories will stay the same.0
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If you are the soup as recommended and had a glass of water after, would you count calories for the water?0
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It's the calories for 300 ml of the soup after adding the water recommended on the package. If you add more, the calories would be less per ml because it would be more diluted. If you add less, the calories would be more per ml because it would less diluted.0 -
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Alatariel75 wrote: »If you are the soup as recommended and had a glass of water after, would you count calories for the water?
It would depend,
If the soup had 1,000 mg of salt and the op went over her salt intake by 5000mg and the OP had a gallon of water, would she still weigh the same? Salt has no calories and water has no calories so why would her weight be increase by the weight of the gallon of water
She's asking a question for a reason.
OP: To answer your question, water does not have calories, hot or cold
but if you have X amount of carbs and X amount in salt, that can absorb the water and hence gain weight.
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Commander_Keen wrote: »If the soup had 1,000 mg of salt and the op went over her salt intake by 5000mg and the OP had a gallon of water, would she still weigh the same? Salt has no calories and water has no calories so why would her weight be increase by the weight of the gallon of water
because water has no CALORIES but it does have MASS which means it has weight, so if you put 8lbs of water into your belly you will weigh 8 lbs more. until you go to the bathroom.
salt has no calories but it changes the osmotic pressure in your muscle cells, causing them to hold more or less water.
but since OP has no concept of dilution perhaps we shouldn't try to get into osmosis and cellular fluid retention just yet.0 -
ie:
Total calories per soup recipe 500.
Total servings: 5 @ 100 cals/cup.
You add 2 cups of water- you will get more soup <volume>.
Now it is 7 cups of soup but still only 500 total calories for the recipe.
So now your soup is 7 servings at 71 cals/cup.
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Like started above...you might weigh a SLIGHTLY larger amount imediately after eating it...but you will pee out that water later that day.
Plain water has zero calories..it will not cause you to gain fat or to put on weight that wont be peed out later.
Adding more water to a soup is a great way to feel fuller for the same amount of calories! So it drinking a glass of water before or after each meal. It will help fill your stomach without adding calories.
Other very low calorie fluids are unsweetened tea and coffee. Those have around 5-10cals per cup, depending on the brand.
Fluids can have high calorie counts too.... sugar sweetened pop, teas, coffee.... milks, juices, etc... all have calories so be sure to log those caefully.
When in doubt....type the food or drink into the database and look at the entries. Its best to look at the food package label, but when you cant...look at the database before ingesting it to check calories.0 -
Commander_Keen wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »If you are the soup as recommended and had a glass of water after, would you count calories for the water?
It would depend,
If the soup had 1,000 mg of salt and the op went over her salt intake by 5000mg and the OP had a gallon of water, would she still weigh the same? Salt has no calories and water has no calories so why would her weight be increase by the weight of the gallon of water
The question was: would you count the calories for the water? To which the obvious answer is, no.
Why are you complicating it with sodium intake and the OPs body weight after a meal? Neither was a component of the question asked.0 -
Folks people sometimes have basic questions that clearly need a basic answer, they don't deserve to be trolled or mocked. We have cleaned up this discussion. If you are in this discussion to genuinely help move on please.0
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Folks people sometimes have basic questions that clearly need a basic answer, they don't deserve to be trolled or mocked. We have cleaned up this discussion. If you are in this discussion to genuinely help move on please.
Uh...
(And I can't believe my post that stated hot water has more calories than cold water was deleted. Why do you hate science???
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No adding water will not add calories. It just dilutes the soup. Water has no calories in it. Just depends on how thin or thick you would like your soup / flavor.
Now if you were adding milk that would be a different story because milk does have calories, fat, etc. in it. Although I have found that most packaged foods that require adding butter, milk, etc. to it will include a nutritional list of calories and such for "as prepared". So, if you follow the cooking / prep directions then that works.0
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