calories
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A 2-cup serving contains only 80 calories and provides 25% of the daily value for vitamin C along with 8% of the daily value for vitamin B6.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
Anything with high protein or high in calories isn’t.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
The brothers in podcasting, partners in Por Osos Vodka and real-life besties are back to burn calories the old-fashioned way.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
He said tourist food eaten by macaques was "extremely rich in calories, sugar, salt and dairy" - with primates intolerant of lactose found in "hugely popular" ice-cream.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Those mammals thereby yield several times more calories over their lifetime than if they were just slaughtered and consumed as meat.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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