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How many edible kcalories are in a whole cow (or similar animal), including organs, marrow, etc? What is the distribution of fat to protein? How does being grass or grain fed affect this?

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I would have to say that a whole cow contains lots and lots of calories. That's a scientific term, btw ;) – Helen Feb 24 2011 at 22:38
Why are you curious? – Jamie Aug 10 at 8:42

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Just dehydrate one, pulverize it and put it into a really big bomb calorimeter. This is like one of those guess the number of jelly beans things. My napkin-math gives 759,000 calories.

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Not too sure but there are 6 million in an elephant!!

http://www.good.is/post/feast-your-eyes-time-lapse-video-shows-6-million-calories-consumed-in-just-2-minutes/

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The calories are irrelevant but there's lots of bio-available protein, healthy saturated fats, an unknown balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and flavor.

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When a beef is slaughtered, it yields between 50-55% useable meat. Grassfed will yield more lean meat compared to CAFCo grain fed and finished.

I doubt that anyone really knows how many calories a beef yields. Call a slaughterhouse and see what they say.

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That figure also wouldn't include the potential for edible marrow, super soft cooked bones, calories derived from both broth, etc. – familygrokumentarian Feb 24 2011 at 23:52
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Over 100,000 calories. Easy.

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You forgot to carry the 4, Travis.

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Elvis ate 50,000 calories a day, sorry sort of off topic, but hey!

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