Chips are often put in the unhealthy food category, chip brands like Doritos are known for their festive, decadent flavors but are loaded with calories. The calorie count in a bag of white corn tortilla chips is 1,041 according to the USDA. Doritos are flavored tortilla chips that are covered in a powder seasoning. One ounce of Doritos® JACKED™ Ranch Dipped Hot Wings Flavored Tortilla chips is 130 calories. According to Christian Nordqvist's article in Medical News Today, a calorie is a unit of energy, and the amount of calories a food contains, "tells us how much potential energy they posses.". Doritos are mainly high in calories because of their high sodium, fat and carbohydrate context. In the Jacked Ranch Dipped Hot Wings Doritos flavor, there is 60 calories from fat in six chips. The powdery substance that give the chips their taste is a mixture of oils. Doritos are also a sugar based food, and sugar based foods are very flammable.
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An important tool in this field is the calorimeter, a device used to measure the quantity of heat released or absorbed in a physical or chemical change. A calorimeter works by having heat transfer between the substance 1 (substance being tested in a physical or chemical change) and substance 2 (substance used so heat is transferred). Usually substance 2 would be water because it has a precisely measured
An important tool in this field is the calorimeter, a device used to measure the quantity of heat released or absorbed in a physical or chemical change. A calorimeter works by having heat transfer between the substance 1 (substance being tested in a physical or chemical change) and substance 2 (substance used so heat is transferred). Usually substance 2 would be water because it has a precisely measured