Some foods should be consumed in great moderation. These are foods that have a high energy density: they contain a lot of calories for a low volume. These are the famous calorie bombs !
Among these foods with the highest calories, with more than 400 kcalories per 100g unsurprisingly, we find cakes and pastries, candies, ice cream, crisps, cheese, cold meats, butter or mayonnaise, spread but also oilseeds.
You should know that fats are the most caloric nutrients (9 calories per gram against 4 for proteins and carbohydrates). So the foods very high in fat are very high in calories, like butter with 750kcal per 100g, mayonnaise with 700 kcal, crisps with 550kcal per 100g, chocolate with 550kcal per 100g … and nuts like most oilseeds.
There are some very fatty foods that do not appear to be fatty and yet are very high in calories. For example, did you know that Gruyère is one of the fattest cheeses, which provides 400 kcal per 100g? And tarama, which appears healthy with its fish base, is actually a calorie bomb with 500kcal per 100g because of its very high lipid content, identical to that of rillettes?
To identify these foods that make you fat, you need read nutrition labels and learn about the energy content of foods. Look at the number of calories per 100g of a food: the higher this number, the more you should avoid this food.
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