Can there be 10,000 calories in a salmon?
Watching a Nature program. Momma grizzly bear swam 20 feet down to the bottom of a lake and caught a salmon. It was a sockeye. It wasn’t super huge, as far as I could tell (of course, it was in the mouth of a grizzly bear,) and she brought it to shore to share with her cubs.
The narrator (Spock, actually) said, “Mmmm. 10,000 calories of pure protein.” I replayed it to double check that he did, actually, say “ten-thousand” calories.
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Well, a 5 ounce salmon fillet has about 240 calories.
That means 48 calories per ounce, which means a roughly 13-ish lb salmon would carry 10,000 calories.
A twelve pound salmon would have about 10,000 calories, give or take.
I looked up “calorie count per pound for salmon”.
I totally believe you guys. I’m in the middle of trying to watch a movie with Rick, that’s why I didn’t look it up. ....But, to hell with the movie….. I just did and I come up with 944 calories in a pound of salmon and 1099 in a pound of pork.
This is confusing to me.
Oh, Lord. He started with a guy movie, and then he switched to The Princess Bride while I was composing above ^^^^. I fear I shall not return tonight.
I am still confused.
I think the rule of thumb is 3 calories per gram of protein. But don’t quote me on that, I’m 20 lbs over my ideal weight.
Well, by my calculations, the salmon itself only adds up to about 6,000 calories but then you have to factor in all the calories from those many aluminum cans.
Not to mention that the grand 10k total includes fish head, brain, entrails, bones, skin. Pretty much the whole -Enchilada—Salmon.
Was it Coho? depending on the type of salmon it was, it could easily get to 10,000 calories without being an enormous fish.
@Coloma Yeah, the bears will eat the whole thing.
A decent fisherman with knife will usually get filets or steaks totaling about 35% of the total weight of the fish. I usually figure a third. So, by calculation using 4 grams of protein totaling 10,000 grams in one salmon, minus the waste, a human would need to catch a salmon a bit more than 40 lbs to reap 10,000 calories of edible protein.
4 calories per gram of protein.
4 calories per gram of carbohydrate
9 calories per gram of fat.
I don’t know the ratio of fat to protein in the flesh of a Sockeye, but it’s my guess that a pig carries more fat and less protein per pound. That’s why you get more calories in pork per weight than you do in salmon and why more of the calories in salmon are protein in origin. And the fatty oil in salmon is good for you. Fish is good. Eat more fish.
Now I want fish tacos.
Lots of them.
Well considering the amount of calories in a Big Mac I can believe it.
Yes. And fat and oils etc.
@monthly what do Big Macs have to do with anything? We’re talking about a raw, fresh salmon that a bear caught. Not a cooked and processed one he ordered at the McD’s drive through. That didn’t even make any sense
This has been enlightening, guys. Do brains and guts have lots and lots of protein?
Brains have a lot of fat, but it’s good fat.
My brain is a lean, mean, fighting machine, now the rest of me would feed a bear and her cubs for a week or more. lol
@Dutchess_III I don’t know the exact calorie/fat content for entrails and brains, but the skin alone, that contains a lot of oils and sub-cue fat deposits certainly would heftily contribute to overall caloric content I think.
My point is that the caloric mass density of something like a Big Mac is very high, and it’s also small. I used that as an example because everybody knows what a Big Mac is. It’s not unreasonable to extrapolate the caloric mass density of something as large as a salmon.
But I am new to this site, so again, I apologize if I wrote out of turn or too off topic.
@monthly Fear not, I’m the queen of one thing leads to another and another. I don’t call it going off topic, I call it free association. haha
I get where you’re coming from.
@monthly And we’re happy to have some new folks around here.
@monthly – welcome to Fluther.
Your comment was fine.
@monthly: Don’t be scared off by the ones who like to argue for argument’s sake.
^^Not that the OP has ever been accused of that!
@jca I’m not scared off. I’m just trying to be polite and learn the rules. Thanks.
And only 46½ Snickers bars equals 10,000 calories!
Above we were comparing the calories in a pound of different meats to a pound of salmon.
Pork = 1099
Beef= 798
Salmon = 944. <<< That just blows my mind.
Snickers: 2151 calories per pound.
I like Snickers. I could eat a pound of Snickers!
@Dutchess – it’s important to note that people eat much smaller portions of salmon than they do beef. I’ve never seen an “eat this 96 oz slab of fish and it’s free!” promotion.
and..there are 80 calories in your average pawpaw fruit. lol
Yeah, @Seek. I think people who order salmon, or (non fried) fish in general, tend to eat smaller portions, and healthier portions, over all. The dish is usually offered with some sort of steamed vegetables, or something and it’s expensive!
You also don’t see salmon dressed up like this like it’s somehow attractive.
^^Not this guy.
@Coloma OK, OK, I’m over it. Today is a new day. And frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a damn.
Frankly, scallop, I don’t give a clam.
If I eat all these calories, it’ll all to go my butthanks.
This thread is starting to smell fishy.
Just yukking it up for the Hali-butt!
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