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Originally Posted by glatt
Maybe they are referring to scientifically defined calories instead of food industry calories? There is a thousand fold difference between the two.
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I thought about that when I considered typing Kcal instead of 1000 calories. But if there are 10,000 small calories, then the sundae would only be 10 food calories, or about a teaspoon. Micro Sundae.
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
The name calorie is used for two units of energy.
The small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal) is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere.[1]
The large calorie, kilogram calorie, dietary calorie, nutritionist's calorie, nutritional calorie, Calorie (capital C)[2] or food calorie (symbol: Cal) is approximately the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. The large calorie is thus equal to 1000 small calories or one kilocalorie (symbol: kcal).[1]
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