Calculating calories- calling all health and science jellies...

Calculating calories- calling all health and science jellies...
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I think to remain accurate you need a calorimeter for each sample and a large enough number of samples to have statistical significance. Too many variables to trust a formula. Conditions are never that perfect.
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