Eggplant is not the calorie culprit its fried reputation suggests. Raw, it contains roughly 25 calories per 100 grams; the trouble begins when its airy flesh meets a generous pan of oil. A vegetable that starts light can emerge as a much richer dish, its final calorie count shaped by the fat it absorbs.The flesh is a sponge with consequences. Eggplant has a porous cellular structure, with air spac...More