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minus-square@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month agoEuropean nutritional labels use them (kcal). Where do you live that they don’t?
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish-3•1 month agoExactly. They use a unit representing 1000 calories. They don’t use calories. In the US we use “Calories” which are 1000 calories. Lowercase c calories are just too small of a unit to be useful and virtually nobody uses them.
minus-square@Zwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-228 days agoYou misunderstand metric prefixes. kcal is not a separate unit from cal, it is the same unit with a prefix slapped infront 1000 cal = 1k cal = 1 kcal The equal sign here is not a unit conversion
European nutritional labels use them (kcal). Where do you live that they don’t?
Exactly. They use a unit representing 1000 calories. They don’t use calories. In the US we use “Calories” which are 1000 calories. Lowercase c calories are just too small of a unit to be useful and virtually nobody uses them.
You misunderstand metric prefixes. kcal is not a separate unit from cal, it is the same unit with a prefix slapped infront
1000 cal = 1k cal = 1 kcal
The equal sign here is not a unit conversion