I don’t “use” either, except occasionally to shrug at how inflated or watered down a product is. Food has both units printed on packaging. It is consistently per 100 grams. I find it weird how in America it is a serving, which doesn’t allow to compare two mixtures.
We use kcal, do don’t really relate those calories to anything else so it works. Unlike for example the meter – we relate it to mm, cm, km, but the calorie is pretty much by itself
I’m from Belarus and live in Canada. I’m more familiar with Kcal, but I use neither. I eat whatever I want and stop when I’ve had enough. I don’t measure calories, and have a hard time with people who do.
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Calories. I know Joules is the SI unit but that doesn’t mean anyone’s counting their kilojoules.
Food? kcal . Oh no, I have betrayed SI and metric system
I don’t “use” either, except occasionally to shrug at how inflated or watered down a product is. Food has both units printed on packaging. It is consistently per 100 grams. I find it weird how in America it is a serving, which doesn’t allow to compare two mixtures.
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We use kcal and call it “calories”. Nobody bothers to learn how kilojoules work though I know it’s the correct thing to use.
Both are always printed on packaging however I only use Kcal/calories.
I don’t know anyone using Kilojoules.
I prefer kJ, but it’s a bit impractical in the way most references are given.
It’s kcal here too, and everyone just says calories.
For my food, I prefer use a fork.
Kilo calories here
i use kj, packaging here has both, purely because 8000 KJ sounds a lot more than 1900kcal and it tricks my stupid little brain
We use kcal, do don’t really relate those calories to anything else so it works. Unlike for example the meter – we relate it to mm, cm, km, but the calorie is pretty much by itself
Kj and kcal are both marked in products. Kcal is used though
kJ, because it’s the SI unit. I cared about that before getting a ‘feel’ for either unit, so I naturally picked the correct one.
kCal now because I’m naturalised Dutch. But kJ are fine too, as they are the unit used in my original passport country.
I’m from Belarus and live in Canada. I’m more familiar with Kcal, but I use neither. I eat whatever I want and stop when I’ve had enough. I don’t measure calories, and have a hard time with people who do.
I think everyone here uses kilocalories and just calls them calories.
Fun fact: by definition these food calories are the same as the equivalent energy of TNT that you measure bombs in. 1kcal = 1 gram of TNT equivalent.
I don’t need those, neither joule nor calories. I eat what I like, and stop, when I’m satiated.
Works out good enough.