If a person needs to consume 100 kcal of energy and she chooses to do that by eating chicken,how many kcal of grain would the chicken need to consume to make 100 kcal available to the human?

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The energy transfer from grain to chicken to human is inefficient, with about 10% efficiency at each trophic level. Therefore, to provide 100 kcal to a human, the chicken would need to consume approximately 1,000 kcal of grain.

If a Person Needs to Consume 100 Kcal of Energy