Why Does a Cooked Tuber Provide More Calories Than Spinach?

[Raghav Gupta]

Explain why eating a cooked tuber gives lots of calories whereas a bowl of spinach gives almost none even though they contain polymers of glucose but still spinach is used in diet! Explain why?Spinach is healthy?

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Different polymers of glucose have very different properties. You should look into the differences between starch and cellulose.