2007-01-06 08:42:04 · 14 answers · asked by Lucy C 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
If you look it up.. (as some have not..) According to Wikipedia, a "small calorie or gram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C... [but a] large calorie or kilogram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 °C." A large calorie is equal to 1000 small calories (also known as a kilocalorie or kcal). Therefore, your question could be yes or no. However, in the scientific community when you use the word "calorie" it is assumed that you mean a small calorie. So no, they don't mean the same thing. A kcal is 1000 calories.
2007-01-06 08:56:40 · answer #1 · answered by Holy Macaroni! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 kcal = 1000 calories
2007-01-06 17:21:13 · answer #2 · answered by ignoramus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-06 16:43:59 · answer #3 · answered by MANC & PROUD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes kcal is the quick way of writing it on the labels
2007-01-06 16:45:13 · answer #4 · answered by carinat777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kcal is an abbreviation for kilocalorie, which is equivalent to 1 Calorie, or about 4.185 kJ (kilojoules).
2007-01-06 16:48:33 · answer #5 · answered by notsure 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yup. just kcal is the abbreviation
2007-01-06 18:01:57 · answer #6 · answered by Lucy Chik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-01-06 17:47:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
kcal (kilocalorie) is 1000 calories
How can all these idiots put up the answer "yes" when they don't know?
2007-01-06 16:45:06 · answer #8 · answered by bingba n 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes
2007-01-06 16:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by KELLY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-01-06 16:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by ameliacc98 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋