If someone said that they consume 2600 kcals per day, would that just be like normal calories(come in food labels, etc)? thanks in advance.
2006-11-16 17:39:39 · 5 answers · asked by holly312 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Yes, a food Calorie (with a big C) is actually 1,000 calories (little c), aka a Kilocalorie.
2006-11-16 17:50:23 · answer #1 · answered by Heidi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep
One Kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories
Dieticians and food labels use Calorie measures and in some parts of the world, the Calorie isn't the main energy measurement!
Haha I had trouble with this once too - I realized a label said 100 kcal and I freaked out thinking that it was 100,000 Calories!!!
2006-11-17 02:33:38 · answer #2 · answered by CL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're abnormal -- a Kcal is 1000 calories, but English speaking people tend to just shorten it to a calorie. This causes all sorts of problems when people calculate how much gasoline it takes to create a "calorie" of food. Because gasoline calories are regular, base-line calories. And food calories are really kilocalories -- or 1000 calories of energy.
I don't know if just Americans do this, or if other English speakers do, too. I know that the Japanese refer to everything in kilocalories.
2006-11-17 01:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by Madame M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes. it's understood. because if 1 kcal there means 1,000 cals, that would be too little amt. of calories consumed in one day. thats starvation. but 2600 cals sound sensible enough.
2006-11-17 01:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by rose reb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's the scientific expression for calories.
2006-11-17 01:46:51 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋