Which food is the most fattening?

[Kyriakos]

Assuming the quantity consumed is generally the same, which food would be the most fattening of all?

I am not asking due to problems with those sacrificial entities in my basement, merely out of general interest and so as to better avoid gaining any weight with my diet continuing after a minor pause

Ice-cream is pretty bad, and i assume the worst.

Then again

 

[Rashiminos]

Assuming the quantity consumed is generally the same,

None.

 

[Kyriakos]

It is not like the human body can utilise equally all types of foods as long as the quantity is similar/same. One tends to not need 100% fat in a food, for example

Moreover you will never manage to keep the same calories even if you theoretically eat the same amount of different foods. Some will be used/burned. Some will not be sustainable/rendered useless. Depending on the type of food, and also your metabolism, you will also store more of the fat.

 

[Lillefix]

Kebab has a bad reputation of course. What we in Norway call a Delfia Cake is also is pretty bad from a calorie point of view.

It includes:
~400g chocolate
~400g coconut fat(95% saturated)
4 eggs
Lots of marsipan, nuts and candy for decoration

It's one of those cakes that you don't have to put in an oven, because it will solidify because of all the saturated fat.

I've also heard the Scottish have some pretty unhealthy food.

 

[warpus]

Does soda pop count as food? Cause if so, that's what I vote for.

Just because something has a lot of fat in it doesn't mean that it will make you gain weight, by the way.

 

[Lillefix]

Does soda pop count as food? Cause if so, that's what I vote for.

Just because something has a lot of fat in it doesn't mean that it will make you gain weight, by the way.

I don't follow. Calories are calories and nothing has more calories than fat. Sure there are some food which make your stomach work to digest it which uses calories, but that is negligible.

Or am I wrong?

 

[Phrossack]

The onion blossom:

Spoiler big :

Or KFC's attempt at murdering their customers, the Double Down:

 

[Kyriakos]

^Both very impressive/scary

That Norwegian cake looks quite able to make people fat very fast, too. He have something probably very similar here:

It is called Kormos. The name mostly means "main body". It can also refer to the main part of a tree...

 

[nc-1701]

I would assume vegetable oil has the highest calorie to volume/weight ratio combined with no other nutrients. So that?

Otherwise the question doesn't make much sense, btw Ice cream is not particularly unhealthy as far as desserts go.

 

[mitsho]

I have to agree with warpus here. How often does one eat those Norwegian cakes? And you probably are not going to eat a whole one yourself. From this point of view, soda which gets drunk every day is much more fattening than a special dessert or one you only eat in Summer (or at least, eat way more than in winter ).

But then again, soda is not a food, but a drink

One should find the middle here and propose a food that is neither too exotic and still quite fattening. The Doner for example wouldn't qualify for me since I don't eat that really often...

 

[Rashiminos]

Kyriakos didn't really specify a quantity to use, so depending on where the hypothetical bar is set by the answerer, one could starve on some foods and come out mostly okay on others. It's not like food fattens the eater just by eating any amount of it.

 

[uppi]

I don't follow. Calories are calories and nothing has more calories than fat. Sure there are some food which make your stomach work to digest it which uses calories, but that is negligible.

Or am I wrong?

The value given in calories is how much energy the body gets when burning them. But different types of food can be metabolized differently and there are regulatory mechanisms for converting them into fat, which do not work the same way for all calories. For example, there is evidence that although fructose and glucose have the same energy content, there are differences in the conversion to fat, so a fructose-heavy diet can lead to more health problems than a glucose-heavy diet.

 

[warpus]

I don't follow. Calories are calories and nothing has more calories than fat. Sure there are some food which make your stomach work to digest it which uses calories, but that is negligible.

Or am I wrong?

All I know is this: cut out sugar out of your diet, eat the same stuff as usual, and see what happens to your weight. Heck, even add some bacon

 

[Kyriakos]

Well if one eats a bit less and (most importantly) goes out for walks a few times a day, it works already to lose weight. I lost around 18 kilograms (close to 40 pounds) this last year, but ideally i would like to lose at least 6 more kilograms so as to be around 65 kilograms once more

65 k is a nice weight for me. I was 55 k during most of the university years. That was not very healthy though (1.72 metres in height).

 

[civ_king]

The onion blossom:

Spoiler big :

Or KFC's attempt at murdering their customers, the Double Down:

Double Down for a quadruple bypass.

 

[Hygro]

probably the most concentrated fructose syrup with no other redeeming qualities. It's going to screw your body's ability to regulate as well as healthy foods with the same calorie content. So really it's a question of, if you added this food a large sample size, and deliberately controlled for nothing else, that's where you'd see the difference result on a large number of people get fatter and less healthy from the sugar than say an equal amount of calories from something healthier.

 

[El_Machinae]

Basically, anything with more than 400 sucrose calories plus any fat calories. Your body will have no choice but to store all of the fat as fat, while the liver frantically tries to deal with such an asskicking metabolising all that sugar.

 

[Hygro]

Basically, anything with more than 400 sucrose calories plus any fat calories. Your body will have no choice but to store all of the fat as fat, while the liver frantically tries to deal with such an asskicking metabolising all that sugar.

my answer has been beat!

 

[Silurian]

Bread and dripping

Spoiler :

Pork or beef dripping can be served cold, spread on bread and sprinkled with salt and pepper (bread and dripping). If the flavourful brown sediment and stock from the roast has settled to the bottom of the dripping and coloured it brown, then in parts of Yorkshire it is known colloquially as a "mucky fat" sandwich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dripping

 

[Kyriakos]

Bread and dripping

Spoiler :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dripping

^That looks rather horrible...