I just bought a can of Fanta that seems to have been imported from America and on the back it says that it contains 150 calories but it also says 40g of sugar and there is also not kJ equivalent on the label. I know calories as an old metric unit that is equivalent to around 4J, so 150cal is basically nothing. I tried searching for “american calorie” but I found nothing.
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Yes, American “Calories” (capitalized) are actually kcals.
So 1 Calorie = 1 kcal = 1000 cal
Food labels in the US use Calorie (with a capital C) instead of kilocalorie.
In the US kilocalories are generally shortened to Cal with a capital C, so 1 Calorie on US food labels is equal to about 4.2 kJ
American calories are actually kilocalories.
Calories that you see on a food label are actually KiloCalories
Cal vs cal, Cal is 1000 cal
American calories are actually kilocalories, we just don’t write “kilo” in front. So it isn’t really 150 calories, it’s 150 kilocalories.
That sounds right, there’s ~155 calories in 40 grams of sugar
Also I’m not sure if you’re asking what a calorie is. If so here’s the definition:
“a unit of energy equivalent to the heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C “
Yeah we use kCals. It’s one of the few metric units of measure that we use.
40g of sugar. Thats the reason I quit drinking soft drinks.
No, we don’t have American calories. Those numbers are correct. I think you may be mixed up.
150 calories = about 2 eggs, or half an avocado.
Are you dividing by 4 instead of multiplying to estimate the kJ? 600 kJ isn’t “nothing”…..