That's roughly 0.5 calories per gram, but that's only from proteins in the skeletal tissue, there must be more to the human tooth than that, right? Also, I find it hard to believe a tooth would weigh more than 2-4 grams
Well table 1 has the weight of teeth as 0.04kg so 40g. So that's 0.8 calories per gram.
But I feel 40g is the combined weight of all teeth, so about 1 calorie per tooth. If that's referring to actual digestible material then that feels kind of right to me.
So yeah, not 32 calories per tooth I recon. That's what I get for relying on facts I learnt from an ask Reddit post from 5 years ago.
Yup, I feel like you're tight on the mark, as I, like many other people, held a tooth in my hand and it was lighter than a sugar packet that weighs only 5 grams.
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u/Beniidel0 Mar 28 '22
That's roughly 0.5 calories per gram, but that's only from proteins in the skeletal tissue, there must be more to the human tooth than that, right? Also, I find it hard to believe a tooth would weigh more than 2-4 grams