Answer:
Explanation:
Carbohydrates are known as energy giving foods and they are contained in our diets no matter how small. Other components of foods are protein, fat and oil, vitamin, water etc. A calorie is a unit of energy. It tells us the amount of energy the weight of any food contains. Knowing the amount of calories of food we are taking in helps us to monitor our weight. Each component of food have their own calories depending on the weight of the food component.
For carbohydrate as a component of food, 1gram of carbohydrates contains 4 calories. With this conversion, we can therefore calculate the calories of carbohydrate we are taking in by taking the weight of the food we want to eat.
Hence, approximately 4 calories are in one gram of carbohydrates
Answer: 4 calories
Explanation: Carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram.
