May 31, 2014
These Foods Are Exactly Divided Into 200 Calories
This blog was reposted from http://www.lifebuzz.com/200-calories/#!Q4tYS
Each of the photos below depict exactly 200 calories of that particular food. Some of these are expected, but others are a bit crazy!
Here’s what Wise Geek had to say about why they picked the exact number of 200 calories:
We could have chosen any amount of Calories for this project, but we wanted something that gave tangible volumes for the entire range of items. We felt that 100 Calories of butter or oil would have yielded diminutive portion sizes; on the other hand 500 Calories of celery would have been virtually incomprehensible.Celery Canola oil Milk Gummy bears Hot dog Bacon Werther’s Original candies Baby carrots Apple Butter Cheddar cheese Kiwis Avocado Cola Flax bread Peanut butter Rice crispy treat Jack in the Box Cheeseburger Broccoli French fries Mini peppers Honeydew melon Snickers bar Splenda