Sport Kcal and cal

[FNG0202]

I have been reading the label on food products, some use kcal and some use
cal. Which one is greater and what is the conversion? Anyone knows?

 

[malkore]

for the purposes of food, ALL calories are technically kilo calories.

no need to convert anything, unless a label says a piece of bread is 126,000 calories. in that case, they are truely using calories, so you'd convert it 126 kilo calories, or Calories (with an uppercase C).

 

[Tomu La]

does that mean a can of pepsi is actually 1500 calories instead of 150?

 

[malkore]

right a serving of Pepsi is actually 150,000 calories, or 150 Calories (notice the lower case vs. upper case 'C'? upper case implied KiloCalories)

as I said, EVERYTHING you eat is gonna be expressed in Kilo Calories, so there is no conversion.

Unless you are a chemist, its unlikely you'll EVER have a need to work with calories.
A calorie is the quantity of thermal energy required to raise one gram of water 1°C at 15°C

Here's some detailed reading if you still don't get it