If you burned a food that is high in fiber in the bomb calorimeter, wouldn't you get a number that is much higher than the nutritionally useful calories? Because cellulose doesn't provide calories that the body can use, but it does combust in a fire. I wonder how they would account for this.
Bomb calorimeters can and have been used to test cellulose - if we humans evolved to digest cellulose and wood fiber we could get 3000+ kcal/mol from it :)
I wowed at 2:15, you are such a great Professor Chad!
And you have a great TH-cam name!. Thanks!
the step 3 calculation is suppose to be 11.29 KJ?
yes
yep
I learned a lot from this lesson. Thanks, Chad.
Glad it was helpful!
Another great video. Thanks!
Thanks for watching, hubercats!
If you burned a food that is high in fiber in the bomb calorimeter, wouldn't you get a number that is much higher than the nutritionally useful calories? Because cellulose doesn't provide calories that the body can use, but it does combust in a fire. I wonder how they would account for this.
Bomb calorimeters can and have been used to test cellulose - if we humans evolved to digest cellulose and wood fiber we could get 3000+ kcal/mol from it :)
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