35 kcal?! 35000 calories????
m012192
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I'm making a mushroom sauce thing, and it's polish so it says 35 kcal. but when i google that turns into 35000 calories! that can not possibly be true since the package says its a healthy alternative.
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Kcal = kilo calorie = 1000 calories
Usually when people talk about calories they use the word mistakenly and mean kilo calories.1 -
but in poland they use kilokalories. so the package says 35 kilocalories. i really don't think that would be 350000 calories.0
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for all intents and purposes, kilocalories and calories are equal. AKA 35 kilocalories is 35 calories. The rest of the world uses kilocalories, the US uses calories.3
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ooooo ive always wondered the same because my boyfriend is english and he always brings me wispa bars and my favorite cereal and alpen bars.... and theyre alll in kcals.0
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well i hope its only 35 calories.lol
thanks!:)0 -
Kcal is the english equivalent to a calorie, its the same thing0
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This site uses kilo calories too.
"k" means "a thousand" so 35 kilo calories converted to calories becomes 35000. (35 * 1000 = 35000)
100 ml of coca cola has about 46 kcal's or 46000 calories
It's just easier to say "calorie" than "kilo calorie" in a conversation.1 -
I looked up the same thing since we just moved to the UK. I think it's a one for one concerning nutrition labels.... thats what I got from this (http://caloriecount.about.com/cal-vs-kcal-ft26383) post anyway... :huh:0
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100 ml of coca cola has about 46 kcal's or 46000 calories
No. 100 ml of coca cola would be closer to 50 calories since 250 ml is 8 oz. and 8 oz. of coca cola is about 100 or 110 calories. 46 kcals = 46 cals.0 -
100 ml of coca cola has about 46 kcal's or 46000 calories
No. 100 ml of coca cola would be closer to 50 calories since 250 ml is 8 oz. and 8 oz. of coca cola is about 100 or 110 calories. kcals = cals.
LoL
Okay. Sorry.
I just pulled my number from the side of a Coca Cola cherry bottle so my bad!
100 ml of Coca Cola cherry has 46 kcal's. :laugh:
8 oz is 250 ml ? Good to know. Thanks! I have been wondering that but never took the time to check. :flowerforyou:0 -
Just to totally bust in on this...
It's a funny physics thing. In the US, notice how the labels are Calorie (note the CAPITAL c), that indicates 1000. There's nothing wrong with how we label stuff, it's just the notation that is being used. One of those fun things you try to forget after you get out of college. Technically when we talk on here about things having 100 calories, we're wrong. It's that the serving has 100 Calories.
1 Calorie = 1kcal = 1000 calories.
That's been my dork post for the day.6 -
I looked up the same thing since we just moved to the UK. I think it's a one for one concerning nutrition labels.... thats what I got from this (http://caloriecount.about.com/cal-vs-kcal-ft26383) post anyway... :huh:
So they really print "cal" to nutritional information labels in the States?
I Didn't know that! :huh:0 -
Just to totally bust in on this...
It's a funny physics thing. In the US, notice how the labels are Calorie (note the CAPITAL c), that indicates 1000. There's nothing wrong with how we label stuff, it's just the notation that is being used. One of those fun things you try to forget after you get out of college. Technically when we talk on here about things having 100 calories, we're wrong. It's that the serving has 100 Calories.
1 Calorie = 1kcal = 1000 calories.
That's been my dork post for the day.
Not at all!
That cleared it up for me!
I never knew the significance of the capital C.0 -
They are actually exactly the same.
In scientific circles a kcal is 1000 calories but the term calorie used in dietary circles (the one used in nutritional values) is an abbreviation for kilocalories (kcals).
So 1 calorie is equal to 1 kcal.
Let's Try again...
The term, "Calorie" goes back to 1824, when it was used as a measure of energy. Since then, it's been replaced in most scientific usage with the joule. However, in Nutrition, it lives on -- kinda. Let me explain:
The original "calorie" (note the lower-case "c") was roughly the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree C. For Nutrition, this is a tiny amount of energy -- so small it's nearly useless. So when people talked energy and Nutrition, they started using the Calorie (note the upper-case "C"), which was meant to refer to the amount of energy required to raise 1 kilogram of water by 1C degree. This is known as a Large Calorie, a Calorie, or a kilocalorie (note the lower case "c" in "kilocalorie) or Kcal.
So 1 Calorie = 1 Kcal = 1,000 calories.
I looked it up and this is what i found, it helped me to understand so I hope it helps someone else4 -
bumping this up for other people to use :-)0
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Not true. I have this protein shake in which the sample says kcal but the jar says cal but they're the same numbers0
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According to map my walk I burned 48 kCal but when I enter that into myfitnesspal it says 125 Calories. So this clearly isn't the same thing... and it's bollocks and putting me off even bothering to watch what I burn etc...
Who in their right mind would create something different that means the same... bloody English.... over it.:sad:0 -
this, and not only in the US.Kcal = kilo calorie = 1000 calories
Usually when people talk about calories they use the word mistakenly and mean kilo calories.0 -
big thing people are missing here calorie does NOT equal Calorie (confusing I know). A Calorie is the same as kcal. Capital C and lower case c makes a big difference.2
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lol this is confusing...I got some stuff before that uses kj as energy unit...I gave up on that one...0
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According to map my walk I burned 48 kCal but when I enter that into myfitnesspal it says 125 Calories. So this clearly isn't the same thing... and it's bollocks and putting me off even bothering to watch what I burn etc...
Who in their right mind would create something different that means the same... bloody English.... over it.:sad:
Thats a different error source: MFP overestimates calories burnt. One source is telling you 48, another 125. Go with your other source usually, for example, I always adjust my elliptical trainer time to reflect the amount I burnt, not the time I spent, so I'll have weird increments like "17min elliptical trainer" instead of the 25 I spent, or something similar.1 -
1 kcal (we use this in the UK) = 1 Cal
1kcal = 1000 cal
(As the poster earlier said, note whether the c is capital or not)
1 kcal = 4.1868 kJ
In the UK packaging usually has kcal and kJ on it. Kcal is what everyone looks at, so for example 110kcal for a banana, etc.0 -
100 ml of coca cola has about 46 kcal's or 46000 calories
No. 100 ml of coca cola would be closer to 50 calories since 250 ml is 8 oz. and 8 oz. of coca cola is about 100 or 110 calories. kcals = cals.
LoL
Okay. Sorry.
I just pulled my number from the side of a Coca Cola cherry bottle so my bad!
100 ml of Coca Cola cherry has 46 kcal's. :laugh:
8 oz is 250 ml ? Good to know. Thanks! I have been wondering that but never took the time to check. :flowerforyou:
No. 8 oz = 236.588 ml. But it's easier to remember 250 and close enough for most purposes. I think cans in "metric countries" tend to come in 250 ml rather than 8 oz, but I'm not positive how widespread that is.0 -
250ml, 330ml and 500ml are the common sizes in the UK.100 ml of coca cola has about 46 kcal's or 46000 calories
No. 100 ml of coca cola would be closer to 50 calories since 250 ml is 8 oz. and 8 oz. of coca cola is about 100 or 110 calories. kcals = cals.
LoL
Okay. Sorry.
I just pulled my number from the side of a Coca Cola cherry bottle so my bad!
100 ml of Coca Cola cherry has 46 kcal's. :laugh:
8 oz is 250 ml ? Good to know. Thanks! I have been wondering that but never took the time to check. :flowerforyou:
No. 8 oz = 236.588 ml. But it's easier to remember 250 and close enough for most purposes. I think cans in "metric countries" tend to come in 250 ml rather than 8 oz, but I'm not positive how widespread that is.1 -
Soo.
whats in it?
How much fat, protien, carbs, we can do the math0 -
Actually most cans (at least drink cans) are 375ml (12.7 fl oz).
The world would be so much simpler if the US just adopted the metric system like the rest of the world. The imperial system of measurement is archaic and ridiculous!
Oh and kcal = calorie!1 -
I'm making a mushroom sauce thing, and it's polish so it says 35 kcal. but when i google that turns into 35000 calories! that can not possibly be true since the package says its a healthy alternative.
all calories are k calories. it's one of the ridiculously stupid things about this unit, i.e. that it's actually kilo-calories but everyone just says calories.0 -
1 kcal = 1000 calories = 1 Calorie
Calorie, with a capital C, means kilocalories. When talking about food, energy content is always given in kcal or Cal, never cal.1 -
I have no idea what is going on here so....
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This site uses kilo calories too.
"k" means "a thousand" so 35 kilo calories converted to calories becomes 35000. (35 * 1000 = 35000)
100 ml of coca cola has about 46 kcal's or 46000 calories
It's just easier to say "calorie" than "kilo calorie" in a conversation.
Sorry, but no.....:o).0
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