Are Carbs and Calories the exact same thing?

Answer 1

no all food has calories, it is actually the measurement of the potential energy in the food. carbs are just a name given to sugar, and grain derivatives.

Answer 2

No. Basically, food you eat falls into 3 groups, fat, carbohydrates, and protein. Carbohydrates are found in vegetables, breads, fruits, and grains. They may be simple (sugar, refined flour) or complex (vegetables, whole grains).

Calories are an energy measurement. There are a certain number of calories per gram of each type of food, for instance a gram of fat is worth 9 calories, a gram of protein is worth 7 (I can't remember exactly what carbs are worth, but I think it is also 7).

An ideal diet would consist of about 30% fat, 30% protein, and 40% carbs, preferrably complex. Lower fat is fine, but not if you're going to ingest a bunch of simple carbs in their place. And it's not a good thing to go below 20% fat. Your body needs a certain amount just to maintain itself properly.

Answer 3

Once digested, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats provide the body with the energy it needs to maintain its many functions. Scientists measure this energy in kilocalories, the amount of energy needed to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius. In nutrition discussions, scientists use the term calorie instead of kilocalorie as the standard unit of measure in nutrition.

So no, they're not the same...

Answer 4

no calories measure the energy in the food while the food itself when in the body is broken up into a mixture of carbs, protien and/or fats so that the right enzyme can break it up

Answer 5

no

Carbohydrates are organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.

A calorie, in the physiology context rather than the thermodynamic context, is a unit equal to the kilocalorie, used to express the heat output of an organism and the fuel or energy value of food. A calorie, when we talk about how many calories food has, is really a kilocalorie (1000 calories). A calorie is an amount of heat exactly equal to 4.1840 joules. A "joule" the unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves through a distance of one meter in the direction of the force: equivalent to 107 ergs and one watt-second. And when we're talking about calories in food it's the amount of food that is needed to generate that amount of work.

A "newton" by the way is the unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one meter per second per second on a mass of one kilogram. An "erg" is also unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one dyne when its point of application moves through a distance of one centimeter in the direction of the force; 10−7 joules (a "dyne" being unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second on a mass of one gram).

So, you see, far from being the exact same thing, they are not at all the same.

Answer 6

A calorie is a measure of energy, and are defined as such: one calorie is the amount of energy it takes to heat one gram of water one degree celcius.
A carbohydrate is a molecule. Two completely different things.
Its like comparing temperature to oranges.