If a person needs to consume 100 kcal of energy and she chooses to do so 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 efficiency from one trophic level to the next is roughly 10%. Therefore, to provide 100 kcal to a human, the chicken would need to consume 10 times that amount, which is 1,000 kcal.

If a Person Needs to Consume 100 Kcal of Energy