WHAT THE FUCK IS A KCAL?

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KCAL?

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1000 calories

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Something that would be a lot more widely understood by the commoners if some nigger didn't get sick of writing out "kilo" and thought just capitalizing it was enough differentiation.
What if I want to start a sentence with calories? What do I do now?

Kilocalories or Calories. Basically a thousand calories (note the small c). Kcal or Calories is the unit we use for food.

Here's what the thing says(pic related)
Are they saying it's 100,000 calories?

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Yes.
100,000 small c calories, not the big C that is used to measure every food.
What you think is a calorie is actually a kcal.

Excuse me what?

I literally cannot make it any simpler you new years meme.

1000 calories = 1 Calorie = 1 Kcal

fucking lmao

It's a thousand calories. Makes sure you tell your psychiatrist you only want to eat half a kcal a day to loose weight.

kcal = kilo calories
deka

think for 5 seconds with all the brain cells you can muster. Do you really think a fucking bake mix has one hundred thousand calories? How do you not die in your fucking sleep every night from swallowing your tongue?

It's confusing, but don't worry you're not actually eating like 204,000 calories. Kcal and calories are the same thing when you read them on food, companies just prefer to switch between them.

Every time they say calorie, they're really referring to KilaColories.

this is because normies would get scared with big numbers so nutrition facts just started to use calories and kilocalories interchangeably.

If you see it has 40 calories. it actually has 40 kilocalories therefore 40000 calories. everytime someone says they burned 100 calories, they actually burned 100 000 calories.

I will remember your fail user, be proud.

>Thread full of plebs

OP you now learned that cal is a misnomer. Cal is actually meant to be kcal. Normie society lost the K along the way.

cal and kcal are the same thing.

>If you see it has 40 calories. it actually has 40 kilocalories therefore 40000 calories. everytime someone says they burned 100 calories, they actually burned 100 000 calories
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yo nigga what the fuck?

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>I'm so intelligent, unlike those normie plebs who confuse Calorie with calorie when the entire fucking thread is people telling OP the difference between kcal and Cal
Just shut the fuck up you dumb teenager. Go complain on Jow Forums about how you're so different from "normies" and how they just don't understand you. Your post is fucking garbage, don't post on Jow Forums again.

>cal and kcal are the same thing.

no, you dumb fuck

Cal and kcal are the same thing

I knew what a kcal was before reading this thread

this

anyone who ever took chem 1 should know this

Alright you dumb fucks.
A calorie (lowercase c) is roughly 4 joules. A joule is the amount of water to heat 1 gram of water by 1 deg Celsius. This is a tiny amount of energy. So small, its not really relevant to the food we eat. 1 calorie would be about 1/30000 of a hershey kiss.
So in order to make this unit useful, we divide it by 1000, and call it kcal. Because this is annoying, and only used by chemists, the k was dropped, and a capital C was added.

1000 calories = 1 kcal = 1 Calorie

Fun fact, they determine the amount of energy in food by taking all the water out, then burning it, and seeing how much the combustion raised the temperature of a known amount of water.

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Correction: a calorie is the amount of energy to raise a gram of water by 1 deg c, not a joule. My bad.

tldr, kcal = Calories, dont worry about lowercase calories unless youre a chemist