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minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoYes. 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.
minus-squaredrkt@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoAmericans mean kilo calories when they spell Calories with a capital C, otherwise it’s normal calories. Yes it’s dumb.
minus-squareftbd@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoStill, the post talks about ‘calories’, not ‘Calories’
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.
Americans mean kilo calories when they spell Calories with a capital C, otherwise it’s normal calories. Yes it’s dumb.
Still, the post talks about ‘calories’, not ‘Calories’