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Originally Posted by 2HousePlague
The calorie is a unit of energy, defined as follows: the amount of energy needed to raise 1 cl (1 gr.) of water 1 degree Celsius.
Unfortunately, the popular use of the unit "calorie" in the dietary/nutritional context is actually based on the KiloCalorie (1,000 calories) -- since our meal intake and our burn-capacity is on the order of millions of "calories" per day.
Accordingly, One Calorie on a Twinkie wrapper is 1,000 calories in the lab.
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The only problem with that first part is that "calorie" and "Calorie" are different, "Calorie," with a capital "C" is a nutritional measurement while a "calorie" with a lowercase "c" is a thermochemical measurement.
