I noticed that battered sausages have the same calorie content as normal sausages. How is this possible? Battered sausages are deep fried and normal sausages are raw. Does cooking sausages in oil not increase the calorie content?
It seems counterintuitive, but calorie counts don’t usually increase just because food is cooked. A raw sausage already contains its full calories from fat and protein.
The key difference is water and fat changes during cooking:
So the oil absorbed + fat lost + water loss often balance out, which is why the final calorie difference can look surprisingly similar.
The big variable is actually the batter thickness and how much oil it really absorbs — that’s why estimates can vary a lot in real life.
How many sausages per 100g.
There’s two options; Battered is heavier, so there’s more calories, or, Battered is same cals/weight, meaning it started as a smaller lower cal sausage.
It wouldn't strike me as odd.
Sausages are massively high in fat. Probably not far off the calories for batter, gram for gram. 50g of sausage, wrapped in 50g of batter, is probably roughly the same calories as 100g of sausage.
That said, the 100g of sausage would probably give you more protein, keeping you fuller for longer, and is therefore the better choice.
OK thank you.
No, because you’re not comparing equivalent portion sizes of meat.
It is very much impossible to deep fry a sausage in batter without the calories increasing.
So it's possible then?
Which would mean there is less sausage in the battered ones.
The back of the pack is 100g = . The 100g serving sizes are roughly the same.
They don't. It's only possible if you're comparing entirely different serving sizes for each.
You can't add a layer of batter around a piece of food and not increase the calories.
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