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I tend to look in terms of density i.e. calories per 100g. I'm pretty sure it's Bombay mix, being not far short of pure vegetable oil which I think is the highest foodstuff, although not a food item as such.
Own brand French super market pork rillettes is pretty much entirely fat so it has to be one of the most calorie dense foods on earth.
And yet strangely delicious spread on a baguette with a little glass stubby beer.
A few years back my wife and I tried to solve this question on MyFitnessPal.. from what I recall the highest calories per weight we could find was Whale Blubber.
Isn’t chorizo right up there, 500 calories ish per 100g
You’re all thinking far too safe here.
How about some Uranium 235 at about 18000000 kCal per gram.
(May not strictly speaking be “food”)
Cheese is a good call as the variety will stop you getting bored or pseudo-full.
In the picture, is that a Royale wit' cheese, or a Big Kahuna Burger, though?
Fat is 9 cal per g, carbohydrate (sugar or starches) and protein are all 4 cal per g.
So lard is a good shout, as is olive oil or any other vegetable or animal fat. Stuff like cheese and butter has a bit too much protein for optimal calorie loading. Though in the real world it's probably easier to chow down a chunk of cheese than glug a bottle of oil or lump of lard.
The thing that is most likely to result in the highest calorie intake per sitting is Bombay mix certainly.
Tubs of lard and butter are not that tasty though.
How about a nice huge millionaires shortbread. The massive things they have in Costa Coffee (iirc, might be starbucks) have to be high up the list and boy do they taste good.
Nutella takes some beating and if you microwave it, it becomes a drink.
I believe marzipan is the high calorie snack de jour of the ultra distance set. Palatable as well.
My Dad apparently celebrated his first ever pay packet by buying a pound of marzipan (rations were finished!) He threw it all back up.
My teenage lunch sometimes involved buying a family sized treacle tart from the bakery to help the baguette slide down. Treacle tart would be a good option.
Nutella is like 80% palm oil. There’s virtually no chocolate or nuts in it.
Pure filth.
Yes I had it for breakfast on a bagel prior to riding today.
You’re all thinking far too safe here.
How about some Uranium 235 at about 18000000 kCal per gram.
I think tritium-deuterium is more energy dense, hard to eat although inhaling it might be easier.
I knew I’d read something about Nutella.
Jan Ullrich had a thing for it, not quite EPO!😀
Aren’t Burgers and fries that calorific cos of all the beef dripping content?
McD's fries have been vegetarian-friendly in the UK for years, if not forever. If they were ever cooked in animal fat over here it was short-lived. I can't offhand think of a fast-food chain that uses lard / dripping, maybe some of the pseudo-upmarket affairs like Five Guys?
I'm reasonably certain that they're veggie in the US McD's now as well. I hope they are, because I've eaten enough of them! I'm sure I'd have checked at some point first.
wait, is that really how McD label it? A Double… Quarter…
It's American, land of the litigious. You can guarantee that someone would order a half-pounder and then sue for passing-off or false advertising or something because they received two quarter-pound patties instead. We probably just follow their nomenclature (except when we don't, as above).
Just checked and honey roasted peanuts (HPR) allegedly contain 561 calories per 100g.
Butter is 717 per 100g. I reckon HRP are far nicer. (Not for taost / sarnies etc obv).
Clearly what you need to do there is make home-made peanut butter.
Five Guys use peanut oil.
Good peanut butter is simply peanuts. No other ingredients are required.
McD’s fries have been vegetarian-friendly in the UK for years, if not forever. If they were ever cooked in animal fat over here it was short-lived.
I actually remember when McDonald's announced that they were no longer cooking their fries in beef tallow. I've checked and it was apparently in 1990. Up until that point I believe that they had always used beef tallow.
Aren’t Burgers and fries that calorific cos of all the beef dripping content?
Just being pedantic - regardless of what the fries are fried in (and that'll be calorific fatty something) the burgers are dripping in beef dripping. Buying burgers from the BBQ aisle - the amount of grease if we put them on the griddle on the hob is frankly stomach turning. And i know we should BBQ them, but then everything is just flamed
Pork scratchings... calorie to weight ratio is spectacular.
Deep fried lightweight pig....
Little Debbie cakes........as per John Stamstad.
I remember reading about that guy who used to race the Idatarod (sp?) (you know the mad marathon bike race in the coldest place in the world)
Isnt Iditarod the husky sled race in Alaska?
sorry its totally pointless to point that out in this thread but ive had a few and my youngest loves huskies. We also have a place near by that gives sled rides run by a guy thats done it.
Five Guys use peanut oil.
Cool, handy to know. Ta.
Good peanut butter is simply peanuts. No other ingredients are required.
I know - that's the stuff I usually buy. (Fairly generic PB isn't much different, still usually like 97% nuts and a bit of oil / salt.) Doesn't mean you couldn't do it yourself though.
(Also, I may not have been being entirely serious.)
I actually remember when McDonald’s announced that they were no longer cooking their fries in beef tallow. I’ve checked and it was apparently in 1990. Up until that point I believe that they had always used beef tallow.
Right, that makes sense, it would have been (just) before I went veggie. The US was much later, I started visiting in the late-90s and I'm fairly sure I remember not being able to eat them.
ive had a few and my youngest loves huskies.
Yeah, they're probably quite calorific.
Isnt Iditarod the husky sled race in Alaska?
Yes it is (or was) but there was either a separate race over a similar course for bikes or, possibly,a separate class within Iditarod for bikes (and maybe runners as well)
I seem to remember Brant did it many years ago and reading an article in the mag....
Nuts take some beating for calorific density. 650/100 grams for walnuts or 720/100g for macadamias vs 550/100g for chocolate
On a personal note.... Have tried living healthier the last six months or so. Cut out bread, butter, choclit, lots of processed food. Everything now is fresh. Meals only really once or twice a day. No more white bread. No butter because no bread. No carbs at night.
However, I'll still drink a bottle of red and munch on half a pack of walnuts...
My weight loss had plateaued. Think I now know why.
You can pretty much get a full day's worth of calories from one giant cupcake.
ive had a few and my youngest loves huskies.
Yeah, they’re probably quite calorific.
Make sure you remove the liver!
Just looked up stonner. That looks yum!
ive had a few and my youngest loves huskies.
Yeah, they’re probably quite calorific.
But you'd struggle to get a whole one in your jersey pocket.
280 logically enough, Binners. 0,28 would be better but I suppose but deux cent quatre-vingt sounds better than zero virgule vingt-huit
There is good calorific food and bad.
E.G Nuts, avocado good. Pringles, curry, cheese, bad.
It's common sense. Butter isn't too bad as it contains many vitamins, mainly vit A (great for repairing skin).
interested in why cheese is considered bad? It is simply made by preserving some of the best bits of milk, which in itself is a total foodstuff on which you could theoretically be sustained indefinitely (as are all mammals in their early days/months/years).
Surely the most calorific single food item would be something large. Either the Denby Dale Millennium pie (over 12 tonnes of pie)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51283406
or the world's largest pizza
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/1/youtuber-airrack-claims-slice-of-history-with-worlds-largest-pizza-735637
Don't think either would be very practical for taking on a bike thought. Cold pizza, however, is top notch bivvy food.
Not sure if it's already been said- peanut butter?
A mate said it was standard issue when he was on training in the artic.
He used to eat it from a jar with a spoon when we worked as science teachers. I very much doubt he was burning that many calories wandering about classrooms in Nottingham!
North of 10,000 calories in this.
Even I couldn’t finish it in one sitting.
Battered deep fried whale blubber is surely where it's at...
@greyspoke. We made cheese here for years and never used any salt, nor did we in any of the cheeses we made in Germany and Switzerland. However, I have just googled "salt in cheese" and concede that it would appear to be common and excessive in the kind of industrial cheese manufacture I should have guessed is sold to the great British Public. The obvious answer is to therefore buy hand made cheese direct from a small dairy, though the recent death by listeria might suggest that this is also not the best idea!