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Confusingly, it’s a Calorie, in the sense of “the thing the nutrition label says you probably need 2000 of a day.” If I remember correctly, 1000 calories (with
by alwa 3y ago
Confusingly, it’s a Calorie, in the sense of “the thing the nutrition label says you probably need 2000 of a day.”
If I remember correctly, 1000 calories (with a lowercase “c”) makes one Calorie (with a capital C). The former is the energy to raise 1g of water through 1 degree Celsius, and the latter 1kg through the same amount of temperature change.
- Izkata 3y agoApparently the US Calorie is because that formal definition was originally 1kg of water, it came to the US and got embedded in nutrition stuff, then got changed to 1g of water: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17116702/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17116702/