Date: 20/03/2015 02:30:30
From: dv
ID: 695041
Subject: densest food

What is the densest food eaten by humans.

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Date: 20/03/2015 02:36:04
From: roughbarked
ID: 695042
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dv said:


What is the densest food eaten by humans.

Not sure really but mud cake is pretty heavy.
Sausages filled with redgum sawdust in the mix?

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Date: 20/03/2015 02:45:55
From: roughbarked
ID: 695044
Subject: re: densest food

Corn syrup, Molasses, Malt syrup?

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Date: 20/03/2015 02:46:56
From: roughbarked
ID: 695045
Subject: re: densest food

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-399557.html

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Date: 20/03/2015 04:54:02
From: btm
ID: 695047
Subject: re: densest food

dv said:


What is the densest food eaten by humans.

Gold is used as decoration in some foods (see http://candy.about.com/od/candyglossary/g/What-Is-Edible-Gold-Leaf.htm and https://www.goldleafsupplies.co.uk/acatalog/Edible_Gold_Leaf.html (for example – there are many others, and I’ve used it in cake decoration myself) for some details), and is eaten, although it may not count as food because it’s not digested.

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Date: 20/03/2015 06:33:49
From: buffy
ID: 695050
Subject: re: densest food

Where dense=calorie dense or dense= physicist’s dense?

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Date: 20/03/2015 07:47:27
From: roughbarked
ID: 695058
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buffy said:

Where dense=calorie dense or dense= physicist’s dense?

Ok for you to think physicists are dense but he didn’t say nutritional density.

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Date: 20/03/2015 10:52:43
From: dv
ID: 695145
Subject: re: densest food

The normal meaning of dense: mass per volume.

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Date: 20/03/2015 10:59:26
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 695159
Subject: re: densest food

dv said:


The normal meaning of dense: mass per volume.

Call me dense if you will, but I don’t think that is the only normal meaning of dense.

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:14:44
From: wookiemeister
ID: 695192
Subject: re: densest food

lead lined banana cake

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:16:04
From: Tamb
ID: 695196
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wookiemeister said:


lead lined banana cake

Spotted Dick.

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:30:46
From: Michael V
ID: 695232
Subject: re: densest food

dv said:


The normal meaning of dense: mass per volume.
A barium meal. It might not be a food, but it is a meal…

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:32:00
From: Cymek
ID: 695242
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Meat loaf or something like a banana cake with a large number mixed into it.

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:32:31
From: Tamb
ID: 695245
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Michael V said:


dv said:

The normal meaning of dense: mass per volume.
A barium meal. It might not be a food, but it is a meal…

Mercury was used medicinally. That’s be a pretty dense “meal”.

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:33:08
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 695248
Subject: re: densest food

One of the nuts I reckon.

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:38:51
From: captain_spalding
ID: 695259
Subject: re: densest food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoPytOmsCiY

Start viewing at 1 min 47 secs.

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Date: 20/03/2015 11:42:01
From: roughbarked
ID: 695265
Subject: re: densest food

Peak Warming Man said:


One of the nuts I reckon.

Not even venturing which nut?

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Date: 20/03/2015 12:29:49
From: Bubblecar
ID: 695298
Subject: re: densest food

I’d imagine some sort of highly compacted meatloaf made with very lean (muscle) meat.

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Date: 20/03/2015 13:25:51
From: SCIENCE
ID: 695325
Subject: re: densest food

saturated fat

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Date: 20/03/2015 13:30:13
From: Bubblecar
ID: 695332
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SCIENCE said:


saturated fat

Muscle is denser than fat.

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Date: 21/03/2015 00:37:07
From: SCIENCE
ID: 695783
Subject: re: densest food

by a factor of 0.5

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Date: 21/03/2015 01:53:42
From: roughbarked
ID: 695784
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Believe it or not, the answer is NaCl.

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Date: 21/03/2015 02:01:35
From: roughbarked
ID: 695785
Subject: re: densest food

some links of interest:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/ap815e/ap815e.pdf

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/foods-materials-bulk-density-d_1819.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/Finding-the-Density-of-Food-You-Eat/

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=81

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