equicaloricadj.
/ˌɛkwɪkəˈlɒrɪk/ Equivalent with respect to calorific content; spec. applied to portions of food or doses of nutrients containing an equal number of calories, administered as part of a controlled diet.
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1964 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Nutrition 15 93/1 It may be argued that the preceding schedule of three meals of equicaloric value was insufficiently different from the gormandizing regimen.
1966 Canad. Jrnl. Physiol. & Pharmacol. 44 242 The rats were maintained on a chronic intake of ethanol for a period of 3 months, the control group receiving equicaloric amounts of glucose.
1974 Psychopharmacologia 37 91 The rats were pair-fed a nutritionally complete liquid diet containing either 6.5% (v/v) ethanol or an equicaloric amount of sucrose.
1981 Austral. & N.Z. Jrnl. Med. 11 484/2 The two meals were equicaloric (435 calories) and designed to contain identical amounts and types of absorbable carbohydrate and similar proportions of protein and fat.
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