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Diet and Nutrition

Frozen dinners

10/05/2009

Question:

a frozen dinner has 30 grams of carbs. there are 4 calories for each gram of carbs; how many calories in this frozen dinner come from carbs?

Answer:

Thank you for your question. If the food has 30 grams of carbohydrates, the product has 120 calories from carbohydrates (30 grams multiplied by 4 calories/gram).

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Response by:

The Ohio State University Julie Kennel, PhD, RD, LD, CSSD
Program Director
OSU Extension
Department of Human Nutrition
College of Education and Human Ecology
The Ohio State University
Julie  Kennel, PhD, RD, LD, CSSD