e eatexplained
No jargon. No diet rules.

How your body actually uses food

What protein, carbs and fat do, how a meal gets broken down, and when your body burns carbs versus stored fat. Explained simply, with visuals you can play with.

fuel in energy out
Fuel from food (the dots) flows into a cell and becomes usable energy.
Carbohydrate
4 kcal/g

Quick, ready-to-spend energy. Broken down to glucose and either burned now or stored as glycogen.

Protein
4 kcal/g

Raw material for muscle, enzymes and repair. Burned for fuel only as a last resort.

Fat
9 kcal/g

Dense, long-term energy storage plus hormones and cell membranes. Slow to access, nearly limitless.

The tour

Read in order, or jump to whatever you're curious about.