Carbohydrates and proteins provide 4 calories per gram, while fats provide 9 calories per gram. Alcohol provides 7 calories per gram.
Fats provide a form of store energy. Fats can provide more than half the energy that the body needs and twice as much as than carbohydrates
Fats have the most energy gram for gram. I think that lard (sometimes called shortening) is the highest calorie out of all fats (but it's not much different to all other fats really).
The main function of fats in the body is to provide energy: By supplying energy, fats save proteins from being used for energy and allow them to perform their more important role of building and repairing tissues. Fats on oxidation provide almost twice as much energy as that given by carbohydrates.
fats - 9 calories per gram protein 4 calories per gram carbohydrates 4 calories per gram alcohol 7 calories per gram
Lipids (fats) contain the most energy per gram of all the macromolecules. They have twice as much energy as carbohydrates or proteins when metabolized.
1 gram of fat provides 9 kcals......and 1 gram of protein/carbs provide 4 kcals...
lipids contain much more energy then carbohydrates. One gram of lipids create an average of 423 ATP or 0.47 mol ATP/gram. Glucose, with a molecular weight of 180.16, generates only 36 ATP, or 0.20 mol ATP/gram
Watsits are a type of snack food, so they primarily release energy in the form of calories when consumed. One gram of carbohydrates, like in Watsits, can provide about 4 calories of energy when metabolized in the body.
Gram for gram, lipids release twice as much energy as carbohydrates do.
One gram of starch provides approximately 4 calories of energy. Starch is a complex carbohydrate that gets broken down into glucose during digestion, which the body uses as a source of energy for various metabolic processes.
when they say fat yields this much energy or carbs give that much energy they are talking about calories. and more specifically they are talking about Kilocalories. 1 Kilocalorie is the amount of heat it takes to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree (i believe fahrenheit) at one atmosphere (basically means sea level ish). heat is the energy. carbohydrates yield 4 calories/gram proteins yield 4 calories/gram fats yield 11 calories/gram alcohol is 9 calories/gram (just threw that one in there) ^^