Oil from the stomach of storm-petrels, a pelagic bird…
“The young is brooded continuously for another 7 days or so before being left alone in the nest during the day and fed by regurgitation at night. Meals fed to the chick weigh around 10-20% of the parent’s body weight, and consist of both prey items and stomach oil. Stomach oil is an energy rich (its calorific value is around 9600 calories per gram)”
The food calories we eat are actually kilocalories (which is why it’s sometimes seen as kcal), so that puts that stomach oil at 9.6 kcals, or, the same as any other fat.
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
Oil from the stomach of storm-petrels, a pelagic bird…
“The young is brooded continuously for another 7 days or so before being left alone in the nest during the day and fed by regurgitation at night. Meals fed to the chick weigh around 10-20% of the parent’s body weight, and consist of both prey items and stomach oil. Stomach oil is an energy rich (its calorific value is around 9600 calories per gram)”
so where can I get some of this for bulking…[/quote]
Did you honestly think such a thing existed that could meet the caloric requirements of a healthy adult male with only one third of a gram? And here I thought people couldn’t get any stupider…
I hope you were being sarcastic or just joking around.
Also, I’ve never seen any food’s energy listed as “calories” or “cal”, it’s always kcal (kilocalories) and kJ (kilojoules).