09-08-2013, 02:45 AM
So I learned something interesting today: http://www.ochef.com/165.htm
Due to this information, I've decided I'll cook the vanilla into the mixture at the cooking stage (spearmint + chinese skullcap (chinese skullcap only in my own personal version of course) brewed in slightly diluted lemon juice + oats + hazelnuts) which I have been doing, and make sure to cook it for a half hour to reduce the alcohol contribution to only 1 gram out of 544 grams total in the entire mix. This is a bit longer than recommended cook time for regular whole oats of 20 minutes, but that doesn't matter, I'm liquifying everything but the gelation ingredients in a blender before the final prep stage anyways. Final prep stage is obviously beating in the gelation ingredients until it just barely starts to set, the goal being producing a nice marshmallow texture
Next experiment batch will come in at just over 100 grams protein, complete whole-day balanced micro-nutrition, and only just over 1130 calories according to present calculations. I am calculating with 4 places after the decimal but rounding off at the end, so I do mean JUST over when I say just over. First significant digit following the decimal is in the 100ths kind of just over.
Hopefully the changes I've made will finally kill that bitterness problem. Main contribution, the lemon juice.
The biggest reason I'm able to pack so much nutrition in so small a calorie count is because I'm going low carb and VERY low fat. Due to the way calories work, the calorie contributions end up with an almost negligible difference, though the protein is still highest contributor, but when you look at the grams of contributions, the carbs are 83 versus 100 protein, and the fat is only 43. The remainder are straight up micro-nutrients and of course water. I actually don't know what the mixture weighs at the end, the math is done including the lemon juice which is mostly water, and lots of other ingredients have a lot of water... but when cooked down and then beat to death and a large part of water and alcohol evaporate... I'd have to weigh the next batch after it sets.
My main sweetener is also stevia, not sugar, and stevia has basically no calories. It's NOT zero (like the advertising literature would like you to think) but it's so danged negligible it's not even worth TRYING to calculate. Mostly because it really takes so danged little AND it takes more calories for your body to process it than for sugar. Net calorie becomes essentially zero.
Due to this information, I've decided I'll cook the vanilla into the mixture at the cooking stage (spearmint + chinese skullcap (chinese skullcap only in my own personal version of course) brewed in slightly diluted lemon juice + oats + hazelnuts) which I have been doing, and make sure to cook it for a half hour to reduce the alcohol contribution to only 1 gram out of 544 grams total in the entire mix. This is a bit longer than recommended cook time for regular whole oats of 20 minutes, but that doesn't matter, I'm liquifying everything but the gelation ingredients in a blender before the final prep stage anyways. Final prep stage is obviously beating in the gelation ingredients until it just barely starts to set, the goal being producing a nice marshmallow texture
Next experiment batch will come in at just over 100 grams protein, complete whole-day balanced micro-nutrition, and only just over 1130 calories according to present calculations. I am calculating with 4 places after the decimal but rounding off at the end, so I do mean JUST over when I say just over. First significant digit following the decimal is in the 100ths kind of just over.
Hopefully the changes I've made will finally kill that bitterness problem. Main contribution, the lemon juice.
The biggest reason I'm able to pack so much nutrition in so small a calorie count is because I'm going low carb and VERY low fat. Due to the way calories work, the calorie contributions end up with an almost negligible difference, though the protein is still highest contributor, but when you look at the grams of contributions, the carbs are 83 versus 100 protein, and the fat is only 43. The remainder are straight up micro-nutrients and of course water. I actually don't know what the mixture weighs at the end, the math is done including the lemon juice which is mostly water, and lots of other ingredients have a lot of water... but when cooked down and then beat to death and a large part of water and alcohol evaporate... I'd have to weigh the next batch after it sets.
My main sweetener is also stevia, not sugar, and stevia has basically no calories. It's NOT zero (like the advertising literature would like you to think) but it's so danged negligible it's not even worth TRYING to calculate. Mostly because it really takes so danged little AND it takes more calories for your body to process it than for sugar. Net calorie becomes essentially zero.