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Energy balance
Meals from non-chain restaurants contained 16% more energy than national food database information for equivalent meals.
Practitioners should be cautious of relying on national food database information for meal energy content.
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Meals contained 16% more energy than national food database information for equivalent meals (P=.0002).
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Source
The energy content of restaurant foods without stated calorie information
Lorien E. Urban et al. · The FASEB Journal · 2013
DOI 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.221.2
other · n=158
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