Gaining

It's one of the only foods that is 100% pure fat. 110 cal per ounce, 110 calories from fat.

And fat is 9cal per gram while carbs (sugar) and protein are only 4 cal per gram.

So a gram of fat is over twice as fattening. Yes sweets and chips are calorie dense, but pure fat blows it out of the water.

And unlike butter, because heavy cream is a liquid, it's much more versatile and ingestible in drinks and sauces.

What? Heavy cream in the U.S. is typically 36% fat, though yes it's 100 calories for every fluid ounce.

There's something called manufacturing cream, which is 40% and 120 calories for every fluid ounce, but I don't know of any shops that sell it.

In the UK and much (all?) of the EU, there's something called "double" cream, which is 48% but so far as I know, isn't available anywhere in North America. It's also the most calorie dense substance that's still a liquid and sort of drinkable. Oil isn't drinkable.

It's also important to note that fat can take longer to digest. It's one reason I tell folks to go high on the fat in the evening, so they can sleep it off. If you have a lot of fat in the morning, this may cause you to snack less and cause fewer calories to be consumed.

While it's true that fat is indeed more calorie dense per gram than carbs, it's not as simple as that.

I'm almost convinced that most fatties into feederism know almost as much about nutrition as a dietician or nutritionist, as they often study how to fatten up, or fatten others up the most effectively.

Are you saying 36% of your Daily Value? A tablespoon of US heavy whipping cream is 50cal total. And 100% of the 50cal are coming from fat, There are zero carbs or protein content, it's pure fat:



Good point on the slow digestion, though. Whenever I've cooked with it, my wife gets so full and doesn't end up snacking all night like she typically does. It's one of the reasons why it's used in Keto diets to actually lose weight.

Oh no... 36% of the weight is dairy fat. The rest is water, I think. But you are right in the sense that 100% of cream's calories is because of the fat.

Link to Wikipedia that has a table of various liquid dairy products and the milkfat content for each to be marketed as such:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream

Though of the five items listed on that table, the only products I've seen for sale are half and half and heavy whipping cream.

If you scroll up a little bit on that link, you'll see a similar table for the UK.

As mandated by the FDA, the Roese-Gottlieb method appears to be used to determine milkfat content in the U.S., where it measures by weight. I'm not sure what method the UK uses. The correct section of the Food Labelling Regulations of 1998 in the UK is not immediately apparent, and I don't currently have time to read the entire thing.

The following link describes the Roese-Gottlieb method:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream