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Fat Content

This category is about the fats (both good and bad) that you can find in food. Ask questions here about the fat content of any food.

383 Questions

Does dry fruits gains fat?

there are some of them who gains fat like cashew and pista but others are very healthy.

What is the salphonification value of an oil fat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponification_value

Is there fat in chocklate?

Yes, quite a lot. One can know this simply by looking at the nutritional information on the back of a package.

Chocolate is composed mainly of sugar, and the cacao bean's two components- fat (cacao butter) and the cacao powder used to make cocoa.

Sometimes the cacao powder is removed entirely, with only the main ingredients of sugar and cacao butter. This is called White chocolate, and, by nature of it having cacao butter in it, it does have fat in it.

Fats and oils are examples of?

fats and oils are examples of components of food which are required by our body.

Is it true that people are fat because they think of food as fattening and you can lose weight by thinking that food makes you thin?

The food that you eat becomes digested by your body. After digestion what is required by the body is used and what is not required presently is stored for future use, mostly as fats. how you perceive the food/fat does not make any difference to the processes of digestion and storage that go on in your body. People gain weight because of lack of exercise, the type of food and the amount of food eaten, age and their genes. How individuals think about food influences how much they eat rather than how much fat they store. So, to answer the question, the statement is not true.

== == As a side note, the only way mentality affects your weight is stress. The more stressed you are, the more stress is put in your body, and the more stress is put on your body, the more it gets worn out. You can lose a lot of weight and get sick from too much stress.

Anorexics obsessively think of food as fattening and they are quite dangerously thin. Perception does not change physiology.