I have to tell you what calories are, because it sounds so incredibly unhinged.

Calorie is a physical unit of energy. For food, calories are measured by removing all water from the food, turning it into powder, enclosing it in a metal container, submerging said container in water, measuring the temperature of the water, then setting the food on fire, which causes it to explode, and measuring the temperature of the water again.

The explosion warms up the water a bit. By measuring how much it warmed up, you can calculate how much energy the food released when it exploded and that is the foods calories.

So calories basically tell you how explosive a food is.

What does that have to do with anything? Who knows.

And if you shine a beam of light through some slits, the banans split.

Yes, that is why the banana phone was such a revolutionary invention.

Well that is a very simplified view of nature, in reality they do not always bounce and banana is just a catch all term for any elongated fruit.

sounds right

Only if it's yellow light.

i mean photons don't really have a shape so... it can be if you want it to be

Why do you think we measure things by light years?

They are constructed by the sun and made up of it's dead breathren

You apply this

I actually can raise my hand for this one, the impact with the skin surface emulsifies the outer banana layer which is then readily absorbed by the pore system. Bananasplitsynthesis is a very well understood process.

Vita + amine, actually. Amines are compounds with an NH₂ group; amino acids are a subset of that.

The person who coined the term thought he had isolated an amine that was effective against a certain disease. What he had actually isolated was neither an amine nor effective against that disease but was actually a different essential compound. (He was looking for what we now know as thiamine but had actually discovered niacin.)

The name "vitamin" stuck around despite the fact that most vitamins aren't amines.

Because that’s the definition: an essential organic compound that is not a mineral, fatty acid, or amino acid. It’s the “everything else” category for essential nutrients.

There was actually just a very detailed gastropod episode on this, but the tl;dl version is that a vitamin isn't a specific thing the way a protein or a carbohydrate is. It's anything that the body needs in small amounts that isn't something else

Brawndo, got it