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KCal?

aigo86
aigo86 Posts: 79 Member
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Can someone please explain the difference to me... I am so confused :(

Thank you!

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  • kneeki
    kneeki Posts: 347 Member
    The small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal)[2] approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.2 joules.

    The large calorie, kilogram calorie, dietary calorie or food calorie (symbol: Cal)[2] approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 °C. This is exactly 1,000 small calories or about 4.2 kilojoules.

    Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
  • kupc4k3
    kupc4k3 Posts: 12
    Basically a kcalorie = kcal = Calorie

    if it is a lower case c, that's 1000 regular Calories that we use and was probably typed wrong.
  • alyssamiller77
    alyssamiller77 Posts: 891 Member
    To clarify all this mumbo jumbo, the calories you're used to seeing reported on food and this site are kCals. Small calories (cal) are too small of a unit to be useful for measuring food energy.
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