Bread or toast?

According to CC, bread and toasted bread have the same calories..  Wouldn't a blackened almost burnt peice of toast have less calories? Seems like you could "burn" off the calories.

Original Post by thax:

According to CC, bread and toasted bread have the same calories..  Wouldn't a blackened almost burnt peice of toast have less calories? Seems like you could "burn" off the calories.

But a blackened piece of somewhat burned toast may have effected the amount of nutrients that you can find inside it rather than having it heated up and just a bit crunchy. ;-P Or, you can just find a "light" bread if you are really wanting to get to the nitty gritty on your bread calories somewhere around your local markets.

Toasting only changes the moisture content of the bread.  Water does not have any calories to begin with so the loss of it won't make any difference.

well. the blackened piece of toast would be fewer calories, if you ended up scrapping off all the black stuff cause it was inedible (there, a quarter of the calories of the bread saved). but seriously, toasting mainly just changes the moisture content of the bread, so you don't actually save any calories from toasting the bread (it does taste better when well toasted though! :3)

Original Post by shandykat:

Toasting only changes the moisture content of the bread.  Water does not have any calories to begin with so the loss of it won't make any difference.

doesn't toasting changes the chemical composition of the bread..?

Well i'm no chemist so I can't answer that with any authority.  But a quick google search unearthed this gem:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/11 9627130/abstract

So if you're looking for hope, i'd say it just got dashed.

 A 2oz slice of bread may end up as 1.75oz when toasted but the calorie-count stays the same.

To the extent that you blacken it, you're turning the bread's starch into carbon, and I can't think of a food in cc which is made of carbon by itself. I don't even know whether carbon is digestible as a food, but I'd suspect that it isn't. Scrape it, weigh it and deduct it as calories.

Browning toast is a different thing. Dry toasting starches cooks them better, making them more digestible. It's the principle used to make dextrin, the lickable glue used on envelopes.

I was just curious if it was true or not. Once saw a fad diet that said toasting bread burns off most of the calories lol. I currently use 35 calorie multigrain bread, so calories arent a problem..sometimes I was toasting, but looks like I'm going to stop cause of the protein and nutrients loss. Thanks for the quick replies.

 

I guess when my GF burns the chicken..  it's got full calories even though it's crispy and almost unedible. :)