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Kcals?? Can someone explain?

MissE4410
MissE4410 Posts: 173 Member
edited January 21 in Health and Weight Loss
What are Kcals, and how does it work?

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  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    Kcal = kilocalorie. When you see a label saying something has 100 calories, it actually has 100,000 calories. Only scientists use actual calories, for diet/exercise purposes 1kcal is called a calorie.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    KCals are kilocals (1000 calories of energy), what is normally referred to as a calorie of food. So 100 calories of food is really 100,000 calorie units of energy. It just makes the numbers easier to work with I guess.

    From wiki:
    the small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal) which is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius;[1]
    large calorie, kilogram calorie, dietary calorie, nutritionist's calorie or food calorie (symbol: Cal), equal to 1000 small calories.[1]
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