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I just looked up adult male calorie requirements. It's 2,500 kcal per day.

There's 1,250 kcal per kilo of basmati rice.

Does that mean I need to eat the calorie equivalent of two kilo bags of rice per DAY??

I actually need to lose a stone and must have done something wrong. Can anyone help me out to understand how it works?

SeanJ
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    Eating only rice would leave you malnourished; energy (calories) is only one part of what your body needs from its diet. – dbmag9 May 18 '22 at 16:26
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    Hi, I am afraid we don't take questions about nutrition (how much of what should anyone eat). The purely mathematical part of it is OK, but it happens to be a duplicate (the other question is in calories per volume, but you can find a ton of sites which will happily convert rice from weight to volume). – rumtscho May 18 '22 at 17:14
  • Agree, no way I'm just eating just rice. – SeanJ May 18 '22 at 17:15
  • @rumtscho the other question does not answer my question. Any ideas where I went wrong. Surely two kilo bags of rice a day would be crazy? – SeanJ May 18 '22 at 17:20
  • @SeanJ we cannot tell you what amount of rice you should, or shouldn't, eat, or what would be "crazy". The other question tells you how to calculate the calories in a given amount of rice. – rumtscho May 18 '22 at 17:23
  • @rumtscho yes.b but if I do it I get two kilos of rice. That seems very wrong. – SeanJ May 18 '22 at 21:29
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    It looks like you're thinking of dry rice (bags of rice) but that calorie measurement is likely for cooked rice. I'm seeing 356 calories per 100g of raw (uncooked) rice, which would be nearly triple what you're currently measuring - 130 calories per 100g of cooked rice. Remember that rice absorbs a lot of water when it cooks, so you have to measure the right things. A two kilo bag of rice would have around 7000 calories, not 2,500. – Catija May 19 '22 at 02:25
  • (Essentially, you're likely making the same error as the person in the duplicate question) – Catija May 19 '22 at 02:28

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