On McDonalds KCal means Calories but on normal food KCal is in the energy sections, does it still mean calories and if so why is it in the energy section??
Please help, need to lose weight lol !
2007-07-28 10:14:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
It still means calories. Calories are a unit of energy. One thing to remember: often the package tells you how many calories in a serving size. Keep in mind that there are usually more than one serving per package. If you ignore the serving sizes, you can end up consuming many more calories then you intended.
2007-07-28 10:25:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all there are 2 types of calories.
The first one, calories, is usually used for scientific purposes. This equals 4.186J.
The second one, Calories, is used on food labels. This equals 4186J or 1000 calories or 1 Kcal.
The only difference in spelling between the first and second one is the first one uses a small c while the second one uses a capital C.
The food industry always uses the second one. Due to some controversy at one point some food labels started printing Kcal.
So whenever you see Kcal that means Calories (with a capital C).
2007-07-28 17:26:54 · answer #2 · answered by christigmc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes KCals are still calories. Calories are the energy it takes to burn, in a food(like penut-not to long). So yeah they are still calories(Kilo Calories)
2007-07-28 17:24:30 · answer #3 · answered by deixsaso 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure lol
2007-07-28 17:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋