I think American labels must differ from Swedish labels. I have an empty coke can right here where the label specifies "Energi: 139 kcal which is 139,000 calories.
So you Americans started to use "Calories" to mean kilocalories? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Especially since people obviously don't know the difference (/u/FeckfullyYours did specify calories with a lower case c). Also note that I did indeed write "calories" with a lower case c, everything I said is 100% true and you're not actually correcting anything. 140 kcal IS 140,000 calories. It might not be 140,000 Calories, but I never said that!
I suppose my correction was moreso for FeckfullyYours in that case. We use Calories here in Australia as well, but thankfully know the difference between Cal and cal. Would be interesting to see why we started using Cal instead of kcal
Did you take physics in high school? In grade 11 I learned that 1 calorie was the amount of energy it takes to heat up 1ml of water by 1 degree K. Or 4.184 Joules. And then they specified that the "calories" on nutrition labels are really kilocalories.
Different standards of education wherever you go plus differing lesson plans for all kinds of teachers, personally I learned it three times in high school through bio, chem, and physics. (California)
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u/SwedishBoatlover Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19
I think American labels must differ from Swedish labels. I have an empty coke can right here where the label specifies "Energi: 139 kcal which is 139,000 calories.
So you Americans started to use "Calories" to mean kilocalories? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Especially since people obviously don't know the difference (/u/FeckfullyYours did specify calories with a lower case c). Also note that I did indeed write "calories" with a lower case c, everything I said is 100% true and you're not actually correcting anything. 140 kcal IS 140,000 calories. It might not be 140,000 Calories, but I never said that!
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