One egg has 70 kilocalories which equals 70,000 regular calories. The current system is measured in kilocalories, not regular calories. It does not say that on the label. Why not? Would someone in the fitness field please explain why they do this? (if anyone knows).
1 kilocalorie = 1,000 regular calories.
I seriously never knew we measured in kilocalories.
My current understanding of this. If you eat somthing that has 50 calories, it has 50,000 regular calories and 50 kilocalories.
Why would they trick us like this?
I'm going into nutrition or kinetics as a career. I am only on my generals currently.
This is completely copied out of Websters - Medical Dictionary. This is not my definition or work.
Websters - Medical Dictionary.
Kilocalorie: The term used to represent the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a liter of water one degree centigrade at sea level.
In nutrition terms, the word calorie is commonly used to refer to a unit of food energy. (The word calorie is used instead of the more precise scientific term kilocalorie.) Technically, however, this common usage of the word calorie of food energy is understood to refer to a kilocalorie (and actually represents, therefore, 1000 true calories of energy).
Am I reading it incorrectly?
1 kilocalorie = 1,000 regular calories.
I seriously never knew we measured in kilocalories.
My current understanding of this. If you eat somthing that has 50 calories, it has 50,000 regular calories and 50 kilocalories.
Why would they trick us like this?
I'm going into nutrition or kinetics as a career. I am only on my generals currently.
This is completely copied out of Websters - Medical Dictionary. This is not my definition or work.
Websters - Medical Dictionary.
Kilocalorie: The term used to represent the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a liter of water one degree centigrade at sea level.
In nutrition terms, the word calorie is commonly used to refer to a unit of food energy. (The word calorie is used instead of the more precise scientific term kilocalorie.) Technically, however, this common usage of the word calorie of food energy is understood to refer to a kilocalorie (and actually represents, therefore, 1000 true calories of energy).
Am I reading it incorrectly?
