Hello and question re Kcals and Cals

DARDEBVER

Hello my name is Darren and I live in the South West Uk, I have joined this site as the tracker was recommended by a firend, how fantastic I am already finding it, however I notice that the tracker uses calories yet a lot of the stuff I am eating is in Kcals, For example, I ate a homemade chicken laksa last night, it was really nice, with a recipe from a health food book that was purchased for me. The listing shows the Kcals at 166 per 150g serving, does this mean that if I ate 4 servings which was 600g that I indeed ate 6640 calories therefore giving one portion of 150g serving a calorie value of 1660 cals..please help as i am confused by this. thankyou

curvykatie

erm, at my working if you ate 600g you would have taken in 664cal as its 166cal per 150g (kcal and cal are the same thing)

clairebear82

Hello and welcome :-)

simple answer, Kcals is calories so your original portion size and calculation was correct, 150kcals per 100g means a 400g serving is 600 calories.

robin52077

technically/scientifically kcals are a kilocalorie which is 1000 calories but for the purpose of food/dieting they are used interchangeably and mean the same thing..... no need to do math
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s_biddo

Hi Darren you ate 664 cals in that lovely meal, Hope you enjoyed it.
It sounded nice anyway xx

DARDEBVER

Thankyou so much that has definately clarified it for me, at one point I actually thought that I had consumed so much calories that I was going to have to eat a thimble full of food per day...