• Nikls94@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    A regular US cup.

    21572 calories is 21.5 kcal and sugar is 3870 calories per gram, or 387 kcal per 100 grams. The KILO literally means THOUSAND.

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      1 month ago

      Yes. Kilo means thousand. However in some contexts, a single calorie is the same as a kilocalorie. Don’t ask me why.

      There are 2 calories, the small one and the big one. And the big one is exactly the same as a thousand of the small ones.

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        1 month ago

        Americans mean kilo calories when they spell Calories with a capital C, otherwise it’s normal calories. Yes it’s dumb.

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          Still, the post talks about ‘calories’, not ‘Calories’