Ice Cubes for Snacking
Sam's Archive - Why Ice Cubes Rock
There is a lovely person named Sam. He seems to really enjoy ice cubes as a snack. On his website, he lists a couple of dozen reasons why, but they boil down to: they don't have anything bad for you in them, and they taste good and are cold. I myself prefer, well, almost anything, but that's me. Here's an interesting bit, from somebody's response to Sam.
"I have to say that you underestimate one of the reasons why ice cubes rock when you assert that they have zero calories. If one considers that the human body must provide the heat necessary to melt them..."
Hey! Let's just skip over this part! It's science, which is awesome, but it's math, which is boring!
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"(around 6 kJ/mol, or 0.079 kcal/g if one substitutes for the molar weight of water) and to bring this (now liquid) water to the average temperature of the body (around 310 K or 37 degrees Celsius), at the average energetic cost of about 0.0755 kJ/mol/K or 0.001 kcal/g/K (constant pressure specific heat of water, source: NIST Chemistry Webbook), and if one supposes the average weight of an ice cube to be 10 grams, the energy supplied by ice cubes amounts to the respectable value of -1.17 (MINUS 1.17) kilocalories per ice cube, and this supposing that they are ingested at their melting temperature (0 Celsius). "
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Stop skipping here! It's interesting again!
"This means, for example, that the calories contained in the standard Coca-Cola (not Diet Coke!) can (33 cl) are completely eliminated just by adding 148 ice cubes to it."
Is that brilliant or what? What are you waiting for? Go and eat some ice cubes now!
Warning!
Eating ice should be a conscious decision on your part. If you find yourself with an unexplained urge to consume ice, you may have Iron Deficiency Anaemia! Thanks to Aramis J. Troche for this tidbit."
I think ice cubes would rock more if they had, say, flavors and sweeteners in them. And they were chopped up in bits. Hey, anybody feeling like a cherry slushy right now?
There is a lovely person named Sam. He seems to really enjoy ice cubes as a snack. On his website, he lists a couple of dozen reasons why, but they boil down to: they don't have anything bad for you in them, and they taste good and are cold. I myself prefer, well, almost anything, but that's me. Here's an interesting bit, from somebody's response to Sam.
"I have to say that you underestimate one of the reasons why ice cubes rock when you assert that they have zero calories. If one considers that the human body must provide the heat necessary to melt them..."
Hey! Let's just skip over this part! It's science, which is awesome, but it's math, which is boring!
-- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip -- skip
"(around 6 kJ/mol, or 0.079 kcal/g if one substitutes for the molar weight of water) and to bring this (now liquid) water to the average temperature of the body (around 310 K or 37 degrees Celsius), at the average energetic cost of about 0.0755 kJ/mol/K or 0.001 kcal/g/K (constant pressure specific heat of water, source: NIST Chemistry Webbook), and if one supposes the average weight of an ice cube to be 10 grams, the energy supplied by ice cubes amounts to the respectable value of -1.17 (MINUS 1.17) kilocalories per ice cube, and this supposing that they are ingested at their melting temperature (0 Celsius). "
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Stop skipping here! It's interesting again!
"This means, for example, that the calories contained in the standard Coca-Cola (not Diet Coke!) can (33 cl) are completely eliminated just by adding 148 ice cubes to it."
Is that brilliant or what? What are you waiting for? Go and eat some ice cubes now!
Warning!
Eating ice should be a conscious decision on your part. If you find yourself with an unexplained urge to consume ice, you may have Iron Deficiency Anaemia! Thanks to Aramis J. Troche for this tidbit."
I think ice cubes would rock more if they had, say, flavors and sweeteners in them. And they were chopped up in bits. Hey, anybody feeling like a cherry slushy right now?
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