Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Is it true that rabbit meat takes more calories to digest than are actually gained from the meat?

So I was talking to someone today, and she claimed that rabbit meat was such a lean meat that it was actually a zero calorie food and that you spent more calories digesting it than you actually gain from the meat.





Now, this statement immediately struck me as BS, but I can't seem to find any good sources on the subject. Anyone here familiar with rabbit meat?Is it true that rabbit meat takes more calories to digest than are actually gained from the meat?
It's complete b.s., of course. There are 3 major sources of calories: carbs, protein, and fat. ';Lean'; just means not much fat, but even if there were no fat in rabbit (which is not true anyway), then you're left with mostly protein, which has 4 calories per gram. (Fat has 9 per gram.)Is it true that rabbit meat takes more calories to digest than are actually gained from the meat?
No, however rabbit has little fat, it's mostly protein. Consumption of too much protein can cause cancer %26amp; diabedes. But in small amounts, your body works harder to convert rabbit (mostly protien and undigestable parts) to fuel (ie glucose) than it does with other meats that have fat your body needs

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Rabbit meat is lean. No food uses more calories to digest than are in it. She may have seen some figures that show how little fat there is and other figures for digestion and by ignoring the calorie content of the protein in the meat concluded what she did. Actual eating and digestion does not take a lot of calories as the fat figures waddling down the street make clear.
i raise rabbits for meat and it is just like any other meat.rabbit is lower in calories and a all white meat. and she is wrong you don't burn more calories digesting it than what the rabbit has in it. rabbit has about the same amount of calories as chicken.


and i have a rabbit on the stove right now to make stew for dinner.
That is SO not true.





That's like Ferris Bueler saying that running a car in reverse takes miles off the speedometer.

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